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["CB0200036","Improving the role and approaches of the Support system and improving its availability in educational institutions.","The keywords of the project are - inclusion and support. In every country, an important criterion for the quality of education is personalized education, which fully includes every child and young person in learning. Inclusive education is the basis of lifelong equality. An inclusive school is accessible to every child, accepting that each child is different. Diversity is a resource.\nThe project aims to create practical solutions on how to improve inclusive education services into day-to-day education services and practices. Inclusion is a question of the values, philosophy of the educational institution, and the attitudes and lifestyle of the whole school community and the entire society. It involves everyone - both those who are included and those who include. \nThe main results our project will achieve are going to be sustainable with a far-reaching and deep impact on citizens. They are complex - the result is formed in an action that includes both knowledge of inclusive education issues and skills to deal with different life situations. To raise the quality and efficiency of providing inclusive educational services participatory approach will be used.\nWe will strengthen the staff of our support teams thus improving the entire support system in educational institutions. \nInclusive education systems require changes at all levels of society to move to the next level of development. Both at the school level and the community level: teachers must be trained; the school building must be adapted; etc.\nDiscrimination and stigma must be tackled and the individuals must be educated on the benefit of principles of inclusive education (diversity in the classroom).\nTotal budget: 210.286,70 €\nERDF: 168.229,36 € \nPartner contribution: 42.057,34 €\nBudget per partner:\n Latvia, Ventspils Education Board - 76.234,30 €\nFinland, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences - 74.358,20 €\nEstonia, Narva Language Lyceum - 59.694,20 €","2023-03-01","2024-08-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",210286.7,"ERDF",168229.36,80,"Inclusive quality education is one of the most important parameters in a country when measuring the social progress of its citizens and its importance is growing every year.  It's the basis of lifelong equality in all partner countries as well: Finland, Estonia, and  Latvia. A classroom in inclusive schools is the main place where the learners’ diversity is accepted and worked with. \nWe all started by compiling the project team and analyzing the current situation, by determining our starting point, because each country is at its level of development. But the questions we worked with were the same: Is it possible that all children/students will be included; What are the top things/methods/approaches that are the most helpful in supporting and including the student; What do we need in the current situation to improve providing support tomorrow; What would be the preferred model/structure/type of support system in our (partner) country (educational institution). How to make our education institutions more inclusive. We all stated our strengths and weaknesses. \n\nAnalysis of the existing situation and support systems in Ventspils city education institutions was carried out. Based on our research data and needs, the Ventspils education board with the support of the Ventspils city council has started the establishment of a Support Centre for preschools and primary school children in the city. \n\nIn Narva Language Lyceum made a report on the enhancement of work with students with special educational needs (SEN) at Narva Language Lyceum (Chapters: identifying and implementing the support the student needs and implementation of support as recommended by the out-of-school counseling team) and identified challenges for further work in the project: building teacher capacity to meet the needs of SEN students, building cooperation network to meet the learning needs of SEN students and support them on the way to the independent life and entering the labor market, making school environment really inclusive, providing SEN students with opportunities to take part in international projects. \n\nFinland Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) with project partners Haaga’s and Vesala´s Lower Secondary School (grades 7th-9th) planned targets and activities for teachers and students. The developmental task is  \"Supporting subject teachers in encountering students with an immigrant background in special needs\" in Finland. Finland partners wrote a research plan for the project, which includes themes of workshops etc., and got the research permit from The City of Helsinki Education Division. All activities are research-based. The theoretical backgrounds for activities are inclusion, resilience, safety, and welfare in school. \n\nIn Project Period 1 we had a Kick-off meeting in Zoom on the 27th of April with all Project partners from Latvia, Finland, and Estonia. We had a Project partners face-to-face meeting in Ventspils, Latvia on 12th-14th of June. We had common meetings, exchanged experiences and knowledge, and drafted out the first key points for guidelines.\nThe project is going the way and pace we planned.  During Period 2 numerous activities have been implemented and changes introduced at all partner institutions. To improve the quality of inclusive education, teachers' professional development was necessary to raise.  \nAt this project stage: \n-\tboth preschool and school educators were involved in their daily work, as well as support team staff and managers. Since project implementation is based on daily practice, several workshops for support staff specialists and educators from different types of educational institutions (target groups) to provide practical help and solve problems together were held in all partner institutions: special education teachers, special pedagogues, speech therapists, psychologists, representatives of support teams, class teachers and subject teachers as well. The main focus was tended to the question:  What is the role of the special educator/special education teacher/other in the context of inclusive education today?  During workshops all professionals worked together, shared their experience to achieve the goal. \n-\tlesson observations with a specific goal - how the teacher currently includes different students in practice, and for supporting teachers and students were done in each school. \n-\twe started to work out how to make the guidelines more tailored to the specific challenges faced by educators in each partner country. \n-\tthe first draft of the common system’s joint model was made.\n-\twe are working on educating the public, informing it by sharing our experience during the implementation of the project, and introducing other educational institutions from other regions as well. \nSeveral outputs are already visible in each partner country: \n-\tin Finland active cooperation was established between educational institutions of different levels (university and secondary schools) in the field of inclusion about how to strengthen the competence, safety and resilience with exercises among students in the school environment.\n-\tthe Support Centre for preschool and primary school children under Ventspils Education Board has started to operate in November 2023. The team of 4 specialists provides these services.\n-\tto increase the professional competence of the target audience in identifying the diverse learning needs of learners and providing the necessary support in the daily learning process, a training course \"Identification of children with different learning needs and support to teachers at the preschool and primary school stages\" was developed and held. \n-\tthe position of SEN (special education needs) coordinator was introduced in Narva Language Lyceum. During the project implementation the necessity of this specialist at school has been proved.\n","Ventspils, Narva, Helsinki","LV, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100026","Export of breeding materials, know-how and animals to new markets","Agricultural sector, incl. animal husbandry, has to find better opportunities for selling high-quality and high-value products because of strong competition and volatile market prices of traditional products. Estonia, Latvia and Finland have good position in exporting of breeding materials and know-how outside EU, as Central-Baltic area has a leading role in animal breeding and reproduction. This is determined by its highly scientific and technological breeding industry.\nThe main objective of BreedExpo project is to support animal breeding and reproduction industry from CB area to enter into new markets- Uzbekistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Main products are breeding materials (semen, embryos), know-how in artificial insemination (AI) technology and related accessories/equipment. It is expected that 6 companies from the industry achieve directly real sales in these markets and ca 50 farmers participate in the export of breeding animals in entrance phase. During the project practical cooperation model of breeding industries in three countries will be developed and implemented. Comparing to global competitors like USA and Canada the breeding industry in Estonia, Latvia and Finland is small and therefore the cooperation between countries is essential n order to achieve real results. \nProject work plan includes composing market analysis and strategy, organizing B2B meetings and contact visits, participation in agricultural exhibitions, organizing roadshows and training courses in AI-technology for the potential clients/specialists from target markets. The practical seminars and exchange of experience visits are planned for SME's from breeding and animal reproduction industries for improvement of their capacity required for successful export. \nProject enables to move forward from the export of live animals to the next level in breeding industrie's value chain.\nTotal budget prognosis is ca 1 030 000 € (LP 350 000 €, PP2 300 000 €, PP3 190 000 €, PP4 190 000 €)","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1129063.9,"ERDF",903251.12,80,"At the beginning of the project Working group and Steering Group was composed. The members of Steering Group are: Olga Lavrentjeva from Estonian Agriculture and Food Board, Tanel-Taavi Bulitko from Animal Breeders Association of Estonia, Jane Mättik from Esonian Beef Breeders Association,  Kristine Miskina from Food and Veterinary service of Latvia, Nils Feodorovs from Sigulda's Stock Breeding and Artificial Insemination Station, Maira Dzelzkaleja-Burmistre from NGO Farmers Parliament Board, Johannes Hyrsky from Finnish Animal Breeders Association, Eerikki Viljanen from the Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners of Finland, Juha Tenho from MTK Satakunta.\nAll partners started successfully the involvement of the export companies and farms to export and capacity building activities. Partners composed joint marketing brochure promoting the animal husbandry and breeding sectors of 3 countries. The brochure was prepared in English and Russian languages.\nPartners arranged first contact visit to Baku, Azerbaijan in 15.-19.05.2023. During the visit there were meetings with local companies organizing the purchase of breeding animals and materials to Azerbaijan. Partners also visited local farms and the agricultural/food exhibition Caspian Agro 2023. The stands are booked for the agricultural exhibition in Tashkent, Uzbekistan taking place at the end of the 2023, and for Caspian Agro 2024 exhibition in Baku. The following representatives of export/breeding companies and farms were involved to the contact visit to Azerbaijan: Tanel-Taavi Bulitko from the Animal Breeding Association of Estonia, Jane Mättik from Estonian Beef Breeders Association,  Alma Berzina from SIA “Baltic Vianco Trading”, Kaspars Adams from SIA “Liellopu izsoļu nams”, Johannes Hyrsky and  Outi Myllykoski from Finnish Animal Breeders Association, Henrik Jensen from Katrineberg oy, Anar Cafarli from Viking Genetics.\nPartners have started planning the capacity building events for farms to be arranged in 2023-2024. The exchange of experience visit of Estonian and Latvian farmers and breeding companies to Finland was planned for August 2023. First seminar for Latvian farmers took place in 22.03.2023 with 45 participants in following topic: “The importance of genome in beef cattle breeding”.\n\nDuring 1.reporting period the project team continued close cooperation in project implementation. Partners organized project Working Group meeting in 19.-20.10.2023 in Sigulda, Latvia, and online Steering Group meeting in 12.12.2023. The information about the project has been disseminated using different communication channels (website, social media, organization’s own publications etc). \nPartners involved export companies and farms from 3 countries to export activities. Partners prepared the videos for contact visits and designed the stand for exhibitions in target markets. Also promotional materials were produced to share during contact visits and exhibitions.\nPartners organized first contact visit to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 27.11-02.12.23, incl. participation with stand in agricultural exhibition “AgroUzbekistan 2023” in 29.11-01.12.23. There were 9 representatives of export companies/farms and 7 partners team members involved in the delegation. The programme included also 4 dairy and beef farm visits and meetings with ca 10-12 farmers and dealers in the exhibition at project stand. The main interest of potential clients was breeding animals, but there is also readiness to buy breeding materials (bull semen) from Estonia. The export of breeding materials is currently prevented because of the lack of the certificate issued by Uzbekistan government, it is still in process. The preparations were made for next contact visits/exhibitions: Izmir in Turkey in January 2024 and Caspian Agro in Azerbaijan in May 2024.\nPartners continued arrangement of capacity building events. Two seminars were organized for Estonian farmers: 27.11.2023 about breeding and 14.12.2023 about export of breeding animals. Three seminars were organized for Finnish farmers: \"What happens in the embryo field” in 24.11.2023, “More profits from breeding\" in 24.11.2023, “BreedExpo2 project and milk production of Estonia” in 30.11-01.12.2023.\nFirst exchange of experience visit for Estonian and Latvian farmers and team members was arranged to Finland in 01.-03. August 2023. The programme included visits to LUKE, Finnish Animal Breeders Association (FABA) and 4 farms, and joint workshop in 02.08.2023 with presentations from Finnish Central Union of Farmers (MTK). In total 10 farmers/export companies from Estonia and 9 farmers/export companies from Latvia were involved to the group. \nIn total 125 companies have taken part in project activities during first year (38 Estonia, 29 Latvia, 58 Finland), from these 8 export companies and 50 farms. One of the export companies, the Association of Animal Breeders of Estonia has conducted sales transactions of breeding animals with all 3 target markets.","Riga, Pori, Raisio, Tallinn","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100107","Increasing international sales in the intelligent and sustainable mobility sectors of Estonia and Finland","The proposed project is focused on facilitating the development of competitive cross-border service/product offers by Estonian and Finnish mobility companies and supporting ICT service providers in order to achieve sales in 3 international target markets: North America (Canada and the USA), the Gulf region and the UK.\n\nIt is very hard for a single SME offering mobility products/services or supporting ICT solutions to reach sales in a new international market outside EU and EFTA. There is significant unused potential in terms of collaboration between the SMEs of the two countries regarding internationalization (e.g., combining product and service offers of different companies for the new markets, joint marketing), but it is difficult for the companies to unlock this potential on their own. A specific characteristic of the intelligent and sustainable mobility sector is that the clients are often public sector organizations and accessing the public sector in the new international markets can be considerably more difficult than B2B sales. \n\nFocused efforts of ITS Estonia and ITS Finland as strong, neutral business development and internationalization support providers can considerably help the Estonian and Finnish mobility companies and supporting ICT solution providers in entering new markets. The key aim of the project is to develop a joint framework for service provision that clearly focuses on achieving high-value cross-border product/service offers that are stronger than individual offers. The project will include a mix of internationalization support activities tailored to the needs of the companies in the ITS Finland and ITS Estonia networks. The networks are in continuous dialogue with their members and the specific tools of service provision will always be selected based on the evolving needs of the companies. \n\nThe total project budget is 1 394 218.6 EUR out of which 699 112 EUR is in the budget of ITS Estonia and 695 106.6 in the budget of ITS Finland.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","015 Digitising SMEs or large enterprises (including e-Commerce, e-Business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria","N",1394218.6,"ERDF",1115374.88,80,"All foreseen activities and deliverables for period 1 were successfully completed during the reporting period. The work and achievements of period 1 form a solid basis for all subsequent activities of the project. The Lead Partner ITL/ ITS Estonia and Project Partner ITS Finland together in close cross-border collaboration focused on the initial planning and preparation activities necessary for the achievement of the project objectives and results as well as administrative tasks connected to project management. The main activities of period 1 included 1) hiring key project staff, 2) establishing the project communications plan and the project web page, 3) establishing contacts with key stakeholders in the project target markets and locally in Estonia and Finland, 4) designing the questionnaire, collecting input and analysing the results for the needs assessment of the target group SMEs within the networks of the project partners, and 5) establishing the skills development plan.  The skills development plan, communications plan, and overview of the results of the target market survey are all delivered as part of this report. \nThe second period put focus on equipping Estonian and Finnish SMEs with the skills they need to succeed in target markets. Building on the insights received from the first period's survey, which indicated a preference for market-focused training, the project team actively communicated information about relevant services and training programs. Additionally, training seminars were organized to address specific skill gaps identified by SMEs.\n\nLooking ahead, the project partners will further refine their approach by integrating skills development activities with upcoming market-oriented initiatives. This collaborative effort will ensure that SMEs receive practical, market-relevant training that directly translates into success in their target markets.\n\nIn the second period the following activities were carried out:\n- communication activities according to the project plan to engage Finnish and Estonian companies. \n- preparation for upcoming events (Intertraffic Amsterdam, Imagine the Metaverse, ITS World Congress). \n- organizing various trainings and seminars (e.g., Small Talk training in Tallinn, two market information webinars targeting the Gulf region in Helsinki)\n- launching a procurement process for a market expert for the Gulf region.\n- active participation in project meetings and webinars.\n","Helsinki, Tallinn","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100049","Joint support network for export development from Finland, Estonia, Latvia to Azerbaijan.","The project LEF network Azerbaijan's vision is to increase innovations and the bio-economy of the region by exporting services, know-how and goods to Azerbaijan. As a result, the Central Baltic region will be more sustainable and competitive.\n \nThe joint challenge is that Azerbaijan is specific due to market needs, language and business culture. For enterprises market entry individually is much harder than cooperating jointly with other enterprises and business support organisations. As a result export to the 3rd countries will be achieved faster and in a more effective way. \nThe project LEF network Azerbaijan aims to achieve 10 sales agreements during 36 months between Finland's, Estonia's and Latvia's mature SMEs and Azerbaijan. Based on small research matching demand and offers are the ICT sector, Green technologies, education - higher and lifelong, interior design as service and interior design products. \n\nThe main tasks of the project are:\n- develop joint support - service platform for export development from Finland, Estonia and Latvia to Azerbaijan. \n- to implement The Export development programme, which consists of WP1 Market analysis & export knowledge and WP2 Export performance & regional image building. Main export activities will be trade missions both to Azerbaijan, and to LEF countries, B2B events (incl. online), training.\n- to provide reasonable services as non-financial support at least for 50 enterprises from the CB region.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1264937.8,"ERDF",1011950.24,80,"LEF network Azerbaijan started quickly with the most important activity - market research, network building and planning in detail upcoming project activities. The main focus for the project team was on quality, relevance of the partners in Azerbaijan and detailed strategy planning for each activity as the activity list in the time plan will be intense in 2024 and 2025. \n\nThe project activities could be divided into 3 main pillars:\n1. Management:\n- Partner meeting in Riga, Latvia 2-3.5.2023. \n- Partner meeting in Pori, Finland, 22.-23.8.2023.\n- Steering Group meeting, online, 31.8.2023. \n- Online meetings, MS Teams platform for teamwork, common WhatsApp group etc. \n\n2. Implementation\nWP1: \n- Business visit to Baku for research and network building, 23.-30.3.3023. \n- drafting all main technical requirements for making calls for offers \n- opening the calls for services: joint market research - agreement phase, webinars: announcement phase; sales representative - open call, looking for offers. \n- scope and technical needs for the exportcluster.eu page, development process. \n- scoped joint approach for roadmaps, videos, open education resources etc. \n- setting concrete activity plan for 2nd period - trade mission, business forum, webinars, research, work with companies etc.\n- shortlisted companies, who are ready to work for export development in the Azerbaijan \n- selected the group for a trade mission to Azerbaijan \n- provided consultations to the companies based on existing experience of LCCI. \n- During the reporting period SAMK prepared a presentation about country’s competitiveness and collected Information about the country’s relationship with Azerbaijan. Also, SAMK has started preparation for the organising the process of creating an overview of what is trending in the industries and what motivates the users to make a decision to convert and buy and description of the business environment in Azerbaijan.\n- desktop research about the Azerbaijan markets and business culture, which has been used acquiring partners and also will be published in our open education web-page; gathering questions from the potential companies and preparing price request for sectoral and product specific market research; planning content for educational online export-webinars.\n- all 3 countries partner organizations started to cooperate and communicate with National authorities - Embassies, Ministries of Foreigh affairs etc. \n\nWP2\n- Agenda was drafed for 1st Trade mission. \n- selection of the targeted companies for participation in the 1st mission. \n- selection of the service providers for 1st trade mission. \n\n3. Communication \n- A3 poster presented at the partners organizations. \n- presented information about the project in the partner home pages \n- PR presentation about the project prepared \n- trained and informed the team about communication guidelines, set by the CB programme \n- meetings with local and Azerbaijan stakeholders to present the project\n- an action plan for communication on the process.\n- participating in public events, which are organized by the Azerbaijan Embassy in Latvia.\n- meetings with companies and introducing them to the project, also informed LCCI Members, the Export and the Policy departments about project aims and activities.\n\nBased on planning, research and networking activities, the project team has a confident. ","Riga, Pori, Tallinn","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100030","Exporting Baltic Nature Tourism to UK","The general common Latvian-Estonian cross-border challenge is resilience of SMEs in tourism to cope with the market changes and enter new markets, especially in the context of the global pandemic.\n\nThe objectives of the project are therefore to develop a joint Latvian-Estonian nature tourism product tailored for the UK market, to launch it through a dedicated marketing campaign, and to achieve sales. The nature tourism product will be based on individual SME nature tourism products, professionally packaged and accessible from an innovative specialized nature tourism web platform linking directly product providers with the market - free independent travelers, specialized interest groups, and tour operator companies specialized in Baltic countries. The nature tourism product will include wildlife and birding holidays, nature photography, soft adventure: hiking, walking, cycling, boating, and also touring programs to include elements and values of nature, e.g., botanical, wildlife spotting, wellness/Spa, food and foraging. This concept meets the current demand in the UK market where nature tourism, escape to nature, rural holidays, outdoors wildlife are on-trend words. \nLinking the existing product potential, SME up-skilling, training and guidance, and project partner experience with the UK market expertise and targeted marketing campaign will result in 50 SMEs achieving sales and contracts to UK as a new market. Innovation value - this is the first joint and diverse Latvian-Estonian nature tourism product on a specialized nature tourism web platform.\nThe new nature tourism product development will bring up the quality of nature tourism products in Latvia and Estonia to approach Scandinavian levels and potentially think about developing Central Baltic region as a common nature tourism destination for far markets.\nThe total indicative project budget is 1 030000 EUR. Partner budgets:\nLP1 LC: 430 000 EUR\nPP2 ERTO: 370 000 EUR\nPP3 ENTA: 130 000 EUR\nPP4 LDTA: 100 000 EUR","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1112592.03,"ERDF",890073.62,80,"Project partner meetings. Kick-off meeting in Riga on 25.01.2023., online project partner meeting on 21.03.2023., partner meeting in Prangli, Estonia on 10.05.2023. + study tour on 11.05.2023., online partner meeting on 02.06.2023.\nThe partners have reviewed the nature tourism products on the market in Latvia and Estonia.\nTourism expert is working on intro texts for products and companies. \nUK tourism market experts were contracted - Nordic Tourism Collective company. \nNature tourism product categories/types were defined. \nA list of quality criteria were developed for the SMEs.\nDestination descriptions are produced, with input from nature experts, to present Estonia and Latvia as an excellent joint nature tourism destination.\nThe market introduction was done with UK market experts to channel hands-on info to SMEs during second partner meeting.\nFirst summery of mistakes and challenges summarized for SMEs/partners about working on product definitions.\nLC disseminated the project information to their members in the yearly national dissemination event 23.03.2023 in Valguma pasaule guesthouse with 87 participants/SMEs. \nThe specialised web platform is programmed, domain is registered - https://balticnaturetourism.com. First 35 Nature tourism products with 34 SMEs are represented there. On-going development. \nThe project profile and product was presented to The Nordic Marketplace 2023, which brought professionals from across the Nordic and Baltic region promote their products and services to travel buyers from international markets, incl. the UK. It took place as a B2B workshop in Copenhagen on Tuesday 21st February 2023.\nLC also participated in Baltic Connecting workshop day on 9th of May 2023 in Tallinn, representing the Baltic Nature Tourism companies.\nThe project partnership together with the Nordic Tourism Collective prepared and on June 20th, 2023 sent out a first e-newsletter to 200+ UK specialist operators and media.\nProject partner meetings. On July 20, 2023, the project partners had an online meeting on the zoom platform. On October 5, the third face to face meeting of partners of the \"Baltic Nature tourism\" project took place in Riga, where the next goals and plans, as well as the improvements to be made, were decided and discussed.\nThe nature tourism product guidelines have been written in Latvian and have been translated to English. The guideline texts will be translated into Estonian and designed in a PDF format.\nIn 2023, 124 products (in total LV and EST) were published on the webpage, of which 79 products are provided by LV SMEs and 45 by Estonian SMEs. A total of 64 SMEs have submitted products, of which 22 are EST SMEs and 42 are LV SMEs.\nA price request and later an agreement was signed for the production of planned video materials for the project. The first 4 short reels with cooperation with project partners of the winter season were filmed and edited.\nThe next planned national dissemination event organized by LP1 LC is planned to take place on 13.02.2024., in the third reporting period.\nContinuous balticnaturetourism.com site development.\nOn September 21, together with LV nature tourism entrepreneurs and the LIAA Tourism Department, we introduced the UK tour operators to the wide offer of Latvian nature tourism - Baltic Nature Tourism.\nThe Future of Nature Tourism in the Nordics: Helsinki and Stockholm, November 13-14, 2023\" there is an event discussing the future of tourism in the Nordics and Baltics. The agenda includes global market forecasts, AI's role, and engaging younger generations in the industry. The event continues with a focus on shaping the future of tourism in the region and B2B workshop.\nThere is an event planned for 16.05.2024. at the embassy of Latvia in London. It will introduce the Estonian-Latvian nature tourism product to UK tour operators/travel trade/interest groups and media. On 12.12.2023. an online meeting with UK experts, Embassy representatives and LIAA for planning the event was held.\nOn October 5-6, 2023, LP1 LC organized a FAM trip for UK tour operators, travel companies and media. The FAM trip introduced the Estonian-Latvian nature tourism product and took place over 2 days in Gauja national park territory.\nOn October 4th, 2023, the Baltic Sea Region Tourism Forum & Workshop was hosted in Riga, Latvia. The event focused on tourism trends and developments, with an overview of the potential that the region has to offer and how it can compete on a global stage to accomplish success in achieving safe and sustainable growth in the coming years. The B2B workshop was held after seminar, where Asnāte Ziemele introduced the Estonian-Latvian nature tourism product to B2B meetings.\nDuring the second reporting period, since the first reporting period, the number of Facebook followers increased by 176 followers (from 134 to 310). During this reporting period in total 177 posts have been made. Total reached audience – 83072.","Riga, Ogre, Ogres nov., Lihula. Lääneranna municipality, Pärnu county, Tallinn","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100119","Enabling growth of Central Baltic SMEs by bridging regional export connections together to accelerate the activities outside EU/EEA area","Due to an existing uncertainty in the markets, SMEs in the CB region are not fully secured to invest in exploring new export markets. Therefore Bridging4Growth project will enhance competitiveness, create connections and generate exports for SMEs in the CB region giving the needed kick for growth for economies. \n \nBridging4Growth focuses on improving the competitiveness of greentech SME-s and on a wider scale focuses on smart sustainability solutions. Bridging4Growth assembles companies that provide high-quality, competitive, and innovative solutions. The project brings together SMEs and their know-how, assesses their market awareness, focuses on creating joint offers, and provides market intelligence, direct export contacts, and support to meet potential customers abroad. \n \nBridging4Growth activities will be implemented in three target markets: Brazil (Sao Paulo - Rio area), US/CAN (The Great Lakes area), and Uzbekistan. Each partner has a named target market to have coordination responsibility and where it is possible to leverage from existing connections and networks. All the selected target regions are fast developing and looking for new sustainable greentech solutions in different areas like smart city, smart manufacturing, digitalisation. This project enables to grow the export network and share the contacts within the Central Baltic countries' network.\n \nThe main output of Bridging4Growth is to provide needed know-how and trust among stakeholders to form cross-border consortia supporting active businesses to gain 20 new sales contracts. Also other created contracts (MoU-s, pilot project contracts; NDA-s) and received investments are monitored to showcase the impact.","2023-02-01","2026-01-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1806375.62,"ERDF",1445100.49,80,"During the first months of the project, the project partners negotiated the details of the project activities. The main activity of the project is the mentoring programme for the companies interested in Brazilian, Uzbekistan and Great Lakes areas (US and Canada) markets. The programme content and execution was planned during the first months of the project. The upcoming company call for the mentoring programme was detailed and planned. Partners discussed which kind of companies are accepted to the mentoring programme and how to attract these companies to apply. A joint marketing material and selection criteria for companies were agreed. Marketing and communication message and activities were detailed to the communication plan of the project. The communication objective is to attract target companies to apply and participate in the project activities. A LinkedIn account was set up as the main communication channel towards the project target group.\n\nThe project internal kick off meeting was organised in Helsinki, Finland in February 2023. Where the details of the projects, first activities and work division was agreed. Also the clarification questions for the application were discussed. The project officially started with an external project launch event which was organised in Tallinn, Estonia in May 2023. The launch event was targeted to the companies and was organised in a hybrid manner. Recordings of the event are available. Four target market (US, Canada, Uzbekistan and Brazil) specific videos were edited from the event video for marketing purposes. The video clips are posted to the project's LinkedIn and can be accessed via these links in Vimeo:  \n1) https://vimeo.com/830500349/8f83601247?share=copy\n2) https://vimeo.com/830500377/810759d29f?share=copy\n3) https://vimeo.com/830500416/5f404dd19a?share=copy\n4) https://vimeo.com/828304274/66a64e97a3?share=copy\nProject launch event in Tallinn worked also as a launch event for the company call. All the partners marketed the call via their social media accounts as well as directly contacting their company pools and business support organisations. Altogether 14 companies applied during the period 1. \n\nAs part of the preparation of the mentoring programme, a joint tender for mentors was launched. All the project partners modified the call text and discussed the requirements of the mentors. Project partner Tehnopool took care of the tender call launch and collecting the tenders. All the partners ranked their respective target market mentors. The list was discussed through, and mentors were jointly selected. The aim is to have as much as variety of expertise from different business sectors. Altogether 24 mentors for project’s target markets, Great Lakes (US&Canada), Brazil and Uzbekistan, were selected. Matchmaking of the companies and mentors will start in August 2023. \nThe first Steering Group meeting was organised on 22nd of May. LP presented the project content and achievements to the SG.\n\nProject has benefited from the cross-border cooperation on wider perspective and knowledge on target markets and contacts for the companies and mentors. Also contacts (embassies, business development organisations, etc.) have been utilised in the target market locations, which has allowed wider networks and visibility of the project activities in US, Canada, Brazil and Uzbekistan and these will be utilised further once planning the trips with companies to the respective markets. Mentoring help and support is accessible from across the partner regions. Project partners have marketed each other’s locations, so the visibility for the mentoring activities has been much wider than marketing alone.\n\nProject partners have shared the responsibilities of market leads among them. PP1 is responsible for the US target market related activities, PP2 is responsible for Canadian market activities, PP3 is for Brazil market activities and PP4 is for Uzbekistan market activities. Partners are supporting each other on activities and cooperating in the company selection, incl. for example working with their respective country’s companies if support is needed. Weekly meetings ensure that information is shared between the partners and challenges are jointly discussed. \n\nIn August 2023, partners signed the contracts with the external mentors. Joint contract template among partners was made which was then modified according to the target market specifics and mentors’ requests. Every partner signed the contract on behalf of their respective target market. LP signed the contracts with the market experts on US market. Mentor’s tasks include mentoring and assisting with the project exports missions. The aim of the mentoring is to identify business opportunities in the target markets and support the entry of the CB companies into the market as well as to evaluate CB companies and find counterparts from the local businesses and facilitate the matchmaking.\n\nDuring the period 2, the application continued to be open for the companies to apply to the mentoring programme. Tasks for the company applications were divided between the partners. Partner is taking care of attracting the companies from their own country and ranks their respective country’s applications based on the jointly agreed criteria. Selection is discussed together among the partnership. After the company has been selected the target market respective partner will take care of matching the company with the mentor and follows the proceeding of the mentoring.  \n\nAfter matching the companies with mentors, the country market lead continues to work with the companies interested in their respective target market with the support from other partners. Working with the companies includes, besides matching them with mentors, answering their questions and taking care that the mentoring process is proceeding. Status of the matching and mentoring is checked during the weekly meetings. Partners also update a joint excel sheet to follow who is matched with whom and how many mentoring hours company has used to ensure that companies get equal amounts of mentoring and also to follow the budget spending. \n\nBesides working directly with companies, partners finalised the market exporter kits for all the target markets in period 2. Exporter kits are delivered to the companies selected to the mentoring programme. Kits are also available for the public via the CB programme’s project webspace and are advertised in LinkedIn.  \n\nProcurement of the local market experts were mainly done during the period 1, but due to the companies’ high interest towards US market another round for mentors for US market was launched by PP1. PP1 opened the call and marketed it via project’s LinkedIn page and with a direct contact to the LP’s networks. Altogether 4 applications were received. PP1 ranked them and the selection was discussed during the weekly meeting. All 4 applicants were selected. \n\nThe planning and organisation of the delegation visits for companies to Brazil and Canada started during the period 2. Visit to Brazil will be organised in April 2024 and to Canada in June 2024. PP3 has been responsible for the organisation of the visit to Brazil and PP2 for Canada with the support from other partners. In the planning of the visits, partners have utilised the help of the mentors selected to the project, countries’ business support organisations in the target markets as well as local networks. The draft agenda and the application to participate to the visits was prepared during the period 2. \n","Tampere, Riga, Norrköping, Tallinn","FI, LV, SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100112","Generating scaleups through a growth program by linking innovations in the smart city network","There is a great number of startups in the Central Baltic region that are mature to take the next steps of becoming scaleup companies. However, they lack support as most of the support activities are usually directed to the early startup phase. \n\nBecause the growth logic for scalable businesses is the same for all and not dependable on geographical location, and the number of potential scaleups is limited, existing resources can be used efficiently through a jointly coordinated cross-border growth programme. The project partners form a cross-border triangle of three twin-cities. This linkage between cities provides an opportunity to utilize these cities as testbeds for businesses and for opening real-life development environments to scale business. This is done by developing a joint service process, ‘a launchpad programme’. \n\nThe project executes two cross-border programmes working in close cooperation with altogether about 20 selected businesses from the participating regions. Those companies are selected from companies providing impact solutions related to the green transition in a smart and sustainable city context. These launchpad programmes emphasize the importance of impact in the business context connecting that with all levels of training: strategic, day-to-day management and grassroot operative work.\n\nThe Launchpad focuses on selected key areas allowing project partners to take a deep dive into selected topics and share the learnings with businesses and project partners. During the launchpad we use e-digital tools for efficiency, but to achieve a real impact, it requires coordinated cross-border collaboration. Besides a knowledge sharing aspect, with our approach, two programme groups are partly mixed together bringing companies in the centre of business development also through valuable peer learning and support.","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","015 Digitising SMEs or large enterprises (including e-Commerce, e-Business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria","N",1529747.49,"ERDF",1223797.98,80,"Project officially started with the kick off meeting organised in Helsinki, Finland in February 2023. During the meeting, the aims of the project and the tasks for the first activities were discussed among the partnership. As one of the first activities in the project, the project team set up a Scaleup Launchpad programme. The aim of the programme is to help selected companies to scaleup their businesses. Scaleup programme is built around four themes that are essential for business scaling: opening new markets, strategy, financials, and people. Scaleup Launchpad programme includes series of in person crossborder workshops, online trainings, 1to1 sparring with mentors, peer learning and offline/online networking sessions. During the first project period these activities were detailed as a Scaleup programme and the timeline for the programme was agreed. The programme is available on the project website (https://www.scaleuplaunchpad.eu/programme).\n\nThe essential part of the Scaleup programme are the companies ready to scaleup their businesses and the mentors helping the companies to scaleup. Together with setting up the Scaleup programme, the planning of the first company call and the call for mentors was started. Project partners by the lead from the LP did joint marketing message and materials for the company call. All the project partners scouted companies for the first programme from their respective markets. The call was advertised in project’s website, via social media, via directly contacting potential companies and during the local kick off events. All the partner locations organised a programme kick off events, where the participating companies were encouraged to apply for the Scaleup programme. Altogether 12 companies applied by the end of the first application round. Project partners selected 6 companies based on the criteria developed among the partnership. The list of selected companies is available on the project website (https://www.scaleuplaunchpad.eu/companies). The list is already updated with four additional companies selected in during the period 2.  \n\nFor tracking down the success and process of scaleups companies enrolled in the Launchpad Programme, LP procured a digital tool that provides three measuring points for the participating companies: at the beginning of the program, at halfway or at the end of the program, and 4-5 months after the program. Digital tool provides data that supports businesses to shape their activities and the scaleup program to focus the biggest need that enrolled businesses do have. At the end of the first six-month period, companies selected to the programme started to fill-in Hippometer tool on behalf of their companies. \n\nThe call for the expert mentors for the programme was launched in March 2023. It was promoted via partners’ and project’s website, social media channels and contact networks. Mentors were selected jointly among the partnership with the lead from LP. The list of selected mentors is available on the project website (https://www.scaleuplaunchpad.eu/mentors).\n\nAs part of the start of the project, a Steering Group for the project was appointed. The first meeting of the project steering committee was organised in April. Project and it’s aims were presented to the Steering Group that consists of project partner representatives and private sector representatives. It was agreed that the Steering Group will meet every half a year and meanwhile stay in contact with their region’s representatives in the project for possible advising and assistance on project activities.  \n\nProject has benefited from the cross-border cooperation on wider perspective and contacts for the Scaleup programme. Mentoring help and support is accessible from across the partner regions. Project partners have also been participating to the several events in each other’s locations and via online kick offs for companies, where they have promoted the project and each other’s work. Project has participated to the Tartu StartUp Day, Tampere Smart City Week and the Stockholm Smart City Conference. All the partners organised online kick off events in their locations, where the project partner locations were also presented to promote business opportunities across the partner regions. \n\nAs the first activities in the period 2, four new companies, two from Sweden and two from Finland were selected to the Scaleup Launchpad programme 1.0. Partnership decided to take in four more companies to the first programme patch to have more peer reviewing opportunities, more efficient use of mentors’ work and to fully offer the planned opportunity for the companies. During the period 1, the number of companies applied and full filling the selection criteria was lower than planned (6 selected companies instead of targeted 10). Now the target is met and the application for the first patch of companies is closed. \n\nThe first patch of selected companies started the Scaleup Launchpad programme 1.0 with a kick off event. The event was organised in hybrid manner on 28.8.2023. Face-to-face events were organised in all the project locations at the same time. Partners organised local events by inviting their local companies to listen the online kick off presentations at their premises. The aim of the kick off was to introduce the companies to the Scaleup Launchpad programme, to each other and to the project team and programme mentors. Programme continued with the first audits done with Hippometer tool to measure the current level of investment readiness. The results were analysed and review with the companies. The next audits will be done in period 3. \n\nThe roadmap for companies was developed during period 2. It serves as a tool for both the project and the companies, guiding them in systematically working towards their targets. In line with this systematic approach, project launched a series of 'Help Desk' online events. While not mandatory, these events provide a dedicated time slot for companies to connect via Teams, allowing them to ask questions and receive support from project partners. Project has a rotation schedule where each partner takes turns organizing a 'Help Desk' session.\n\nIn addition to the “Help Desk” sessions, partners organised six online events called” Tuesday Talks” that were aimed for all the companies that applied (selected and not selected) to the Launchpad programme 1.0 Events are featuring keynote speakers who delve into topics relevant to scaling up. Tuesday Talks were organised on themes of team/people, finances, strategy, and new markets. The core idea of the Tuesday Talks is to offer a peer-to-peer learning opportunity for the companies.\n\nThe first cross-border event, themed on strategy, was organized in Norrkoping from November 7th to 10th by PP2 NOSP. It featured representatives from all partners and Scaleup programme companies from each participating country. Workshop event program included a keynote presentation, a workshop, company pitches, visits to two different testbeds and 1-to-1 sessions where companies met with various stakeholders in Norrkoping. Participating companies has benefited from new contacts and insights to their strategy. The event was organised in connection to East Sweden Innovation Week, where the participants of the workshop were able to participate. The next cross-border workshop will be organised in Tartu, Estonia by PP3 on 23-26 January 2024. The preparation work for the event started in period 2. \n\nFor project internal coordination of the activities, weekly meetings were organised and chaired by the LP to coordinate the activities and share knowledge. During weeklies the topical issues related to project implementation were discussed. For material sharing among the partnership, partners updated project’s shared Google Drive regularly. For the external communication of the project activities, partners updated the project website (https://www.scaleuplaunchpad.eu/) and LinkedIn page. Scaleup Launchpad programme companies are directly contacted via e-mails and phone calls. The second Steering Group meeting was organised on 2nd of December. The project proceedings were discussed with the SG.\n","Tampere, Tartu, Norrköping","FI, EE, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","For each Baltic Sea country, the quality of the Baltic Sea is of fundamental economic, environmental and recreational importance. Contaminated stormwater generated both in coastal areas of the Baltic Sea and the leaching from inland waters produces a risk that should not go unnoticed. However, it is often still overlooked and requires solutions. At the same time, old buildings are demolished in Baltic cities, creating huge amounts of construction and demolition waste (CDW) which is difficult to recycle and often ends up in landfills. However, CDW may be used as stormwater filtering material, with very low cost. \n\nThe StoPWa project develops and tests multilayer stormwater filtration systems using CDW. The filters will be made of waste fractions perfectly meeting the criteria ideal for stormwater purification. The filtration system will be expedient, cost-efficient and sustainable. The filters will be tested both in laboratory environments and in field tests where full-scale stormwater filters will be constructed in Lahti (Finland), in Harju County (Estonia) and in Smiltene (Latvia). \nThe result of the StoPWa project is a tested solution for using CDW in stormwater filters. This type of filter has not been applied before, so the mindset and solution are novel. The new filter will benefit SMEs across borders in creating a business idea and opportunities, as well as cities and municipalities with a new, climate-friendly solution to stormwater treatment. \n\nTo be replicable in different cities and environments from local CDW, waste-based filters in their design and implementation require cross-border cooperation between municipalities and researchers in the Baltic Sea region. The project partnership is: City of Lahti, LUT University, University of Helsinki, Tallinn University of Technology, Union of Harju County Municipalities and Smiltene Municipality.","2023-04-01","2026-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",2587356.35,"ERDF",2069885.05,80,"Project orientation, organization and internal communication: \n\nKick-off meeting with 18 participants was held onsite in June in Lappeenranta, Finland. Internal communication and information sharing in the project is done via online (Teams) meetings, Teams channels, OneNote and email. The first Steering Group meeting was held online in June. A separate workshop on Jems reporting procedures was organized by LP1 in September to StoPWa project managers and project assistants (financial staff). \n\nMapping of the quality and quantity of CDW available in partner countries:\n  \nInformation about the generated amount (tn) as well as material content (%) of demolition waste (CDW) per year in Finland and Latvia has been collected. Moreover, the annual waste generation divided into the EWC-Stat categories in Finland is also provided. Detailed information on CDW production annual amount in Latvia is also collected and categorized by waste class and code. The corresponding statistical information from Estonia is in progress. Comparison of data from three countries gives insight on the magnitude of the waste problem, the differences in registering and classifying produced waste in different countries, and the challenges faced in recycling CDW. \n\nCharacterization of CDW fractions: \n \nA total of seven waste management and recycling companies were contacted in Period 1. In Lahti, material samples of CDW (concrete and mixed waste) were collected from three waste management companies. In Tallinn, also three CDW recycling companies were visited for sample collection in June. In Smiltene, material samples were collected from one company. Samples of different materials and size fractions were selected to be sent to LUT university (PP2) for treatment and analysis. \nThe material characterization by LUT University will give an answer to what kind of CDW materials are available in the project participating areas (Finland, Estonian and Latvia). The quality and composition of received samples were analyzed and the achieved results were informed to other partners. The processability of material was also studied by e.g. size reduction actions with a hammer mill. A total of eight samples of different materials and size fractions were analyzed and pretreated. The samples were sent to UH (PP3) for further analyses. \nUH developed a testing system for extraction of chemicals from the samples. Preliminary results of the laboratory analyses were available in September. TalTech designed and assembled two laboratory-scale CDW-biofilter reactors to test the filtering and adsorption properties of CDW materials. \n\nMapping of the quality and quantity of stormwater in the planned field test sites:\n  \nInformation (catchment area, land use etc.) on the planned field test sites in three countries were acquired from documents, meetings and site visits. \nA background report of the field test site in Lahti was introduced to researchers of PP3. Lahti has also coordinated the criteria for field test sites in different countries to make them comparable for the study. TalTech and HOL have mapped and visited five different potential locations for pilot site in Rae municipality, Estonia. The most suitable site was selected (Tähnase tee T5) in co-operation with TalTech, HOL, Rae municipality and AS Elveso. Smiltene visited potential locations for pilot site within Smiltene area and decided to pilot CDW biofilters in Old park, Smiltenes novads. Information (calculation) on the storm water volumes in the catchment area was provided to the project partners. \n\nOutput 1.1 Collaboration with waste collector companies:\n \nA total of seven waste management companies were contacted (3 in Lahti, 3 in Tallinn, 1 in Smiltene). Project’s objectives and associated CDW recycling possibilities were presented to these companies. \n\nCommunication: \n \nAll Partners have prepared a project webpage on their organisation’s website and displayed a printed or digital poster in their premises. General powerpoint presentations were made to be used in stakeholder and target group collaboration. City/municipality authorities, waste collector companies and Partners were communicated through face-to-face and online meetings, and by visits to recycling plants and field sites. The project was presented in Nordic Filtration Symposium (NoFS), in three Finnish newspapers and in a meeting of Estonian regional development organisations. In addition, a StoPWa LinkedIn page was created. \n\n\nWP1 \nThe data on amount and composition of construction and demolition waste (CDW) were acquired and completed from statistical databases and publications from Finland, Latvia and Estonia. In Lahti region, the amounts of recycled CDW were compiled on a company and municipality level in years 2020-2022. A second round of CDW material samples were collected for further characterisation and starting of filter fabrications trials (agglomeration). \n\nA total of six different material samples (e.g. miscellaneous CDW, concrete, ceramics) were investigated for their characteristics that are essential for crafting a new filter material and adsorption capacity (particle size distribution, specific surface area, elemental composition). CDW material samples were analysed for nutrient and metal contents using leaching tests. Monthly project meetings and four additional meetings were held to discuss the details of treatment methods of CDW fractions. \n\nA protocol for sampling and analysis of stormwater quality at the field pilot sites was prepared. Data on the characteristics of the catchment areas of all three field sites was collected locally. Smiltene and TalTech also sampled the baseline stormwater quality at their sites. In the project meeting in Tallinn in March, topics concerning the field pilots were discussed (land use data, LCA, information exchange, visits etc.). \n\nWP2\nActivities in ideation and development of the biofilter construction included a review report of pre-treatment actions (size reduction, screening, separation methods) available for processing CDW materials. The leaching tests and analyses of metals and nutrients from 12 size-separated CDW samples were also done. Arrangements to test laboratory-scale biofilters were set up both in UH and TalTech. A relevant composition of simulated stormwater for laboratory studies was discussed in email threads and meetings. Processing of CDW fractions to filter materials has been started with tests to make agglomerates out of fine CDW material by applying friction and heat. First material samples were produced at the end of Period 2. \n\nRegarding the field pilots, the first meeting with the infra planning authorities of the city of Lahti was held in January 2024. A request for tenders of technical planning of the stormwater pilot was prepared, and a separate meeting concerning the environmental permits was held. Test site in Estonia in Rae Municipality was chosen by HOL and TalTech. HOL has communicated with Rae municipality concerning the need of permits. Water volume and quality is being analyzed in different seasons. Gathering background information, and mapping potential stakeholders and contractors are ongoing. Smiltene Municipality has selected the site, and the procurement, collection of data, and drafting the design are underway. \n\nA three-day project event was organized in Tallinn on 12.-14.3.2024 for project staff and target groups. In the meeting, project progress, results and future plans were presented by Partners followed by group discussions. In addition, we visited one of Tallin's waste collection centers, a demolition waste recycling plant and TalTech laboratories. The project group accompanied with target groups from Rae municipality, Tallinn and Smiltene visited also the field site in Rae municipality.\n\nWP3 \nSustainability assessment has started in the project by PP2 with a literature study of existing stormwater treatment and purification processes. A study plan and protocol of how to produce a life cycle assessment (LCA) of the stormwater management process has been prepared. The LCA will compare four scenarios (baseline, bio-retention rain garden, sand filter and StoPWa-concept) in terms of sustainability. The goal, scope and functional unit of LCA were developed by brainstorming in the project meeting in Tallinn. The role of Partners is to provide necessary sustainability information, such as CO2 emissions, for LCA.  \n\nCommunication \nProject’s communication plan and templates for reporting were updated by LP1. Information and events are posted on LinkedIn. The Steering Group had a second meeting on 9.10.2023. Partners have organised local meetings with waste companies, municipalities and other stakeholders. StoPWa project was presented at a seminar of Estonian Municipalities on 11.04.2024. Internal project meetings have been arranged once a month and topical meetings between selected parties have been held as necessary. \n","Lahti, Smiltene, Tallinn, Lappeenranta","FI, LV, EE",null,"Eesti (EE), Jüri, Aruküla tee , 22, 75305\nLatvija (LV), Smiltene, Krasotaju street , 3A\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Lahti, Puustellintie , 4-6, 15150\n",null,null,null,6]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","The life and business in the Central Baltic countries are extremely dependent on the Baltic Sea in transportation of goods (i.e. freight transport/ cargo traffic). The transport sector emits greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, CO2. The flow of goods at sea, ports and on hinterland (i.e. intermodal/multimodal transport systems) urges to be environmentally, economically and socially sustainable, especially to reduce CO2 emissions and to tackle the climate crisis.\n\nCO2 emissions are reduced by the Sustainable Flow project in intermodal/multimodal transport system on flow of goods. We develop a digital tool “CO2 and logistics activity app” for CO2 reduction measures (output 1.1.); furthermore, a concept is developed for energy savings and production of renewable energy in ports as hubs of multimodal operations (output 2.1). Implementation is done through real-life pilots, which are in transport nodes for sea and land. There are seven intermodal transport nodes/areas systems with CO2 reductions (ports of: Rauma, FI; Pori, FI; Mariehamn, Å; Norrköping, SE; Oxelösund, SE; Tallinn, EE; Riga, LV). The project provides decision-making tools with practical solutions for various stakeholders to reduce their CO2 emissions in intermodal/multimodal transport systems already during the project and well beyond.Participation of key organizations in both are outputs 1.2. and 2.2.\n\nCross-border co-operation ensures that the developed tools are the most suitable and appropriate for Central Baltic geographical and other conditions. The partnership combinates different organisations to ensure best available knowledge, methods, and solutions to be used. Sustainable Flow is globally the first project focusing both on developing digital tools and focusing on energy savings & renewable energy to reduce CO2 emissions in transport sector, especially on maritime and ports.\n\nThe reduces CO2 emissions foreseen is 10% on average (from baseline 0) in pilot ports by the end of the project.","2023-05-01","2026-05-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.8. Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility, as part of transition to a net zero carbon economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","085 Digitalisation of transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: urban transport","N",3421725.64,"ERDF",2737380.49,80,"Project start up activities for management and communication were done according to the project plan.\nWP1 activities:\nAnalysis of the current situation and structure in the pilot ports, including information exchange activities. Site visits to the pilot ports to understand better the port operations and familiarize pilot ports to our sustainable goal. Activities for port stakeholders and general public.\nWP2 activities:\nAnalysis of the current situation on energy saving and renewable energy in seven pilot ports.\nMANAGEMENT: One official online partner meeting was held on 13.12.2023 and one official F2F partner meeting in Tallinn on 7.3.2024. Bi-weekly meetings continued and online meeting no. 15 took place on 17.4.2024. Also, emails, phone calls, teams etc. were used for efficient management.\n\nCOMMUNICATION: SAMK had the lead of communication and active communication took place according to the project plan and in accordance with communication strategy. All partners showed active participation to communication activities.\n\nA1.1. continued and finished as planned to deliverable report on business model and logic. A.1.2. continued and finished  reporting in port operations. A1.3. Sustainable Flow digital tool planning started and market mapping questionnaire was published to inform market and possible developers. Final procurement to be published before summer break in P3. \nA1.4. and 1.5. periodical reports on activities for stakeholders and general public included participations to events, fairs, workshops, online events and articles, and training. \n\nA2.1. continued and finished as planned to deliverable potential on energy saving and renewable energy in seven pilot ports.\n\nA2.8. modern communication tools used jointly with WP1 A1.5. during the whole project.","Jaunmarupe, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Mariehamn, Norrköping, Rauma","LV, SE, FI, EE",null,"Suomi/Finland (FI), Rauma, Hakunintie, 19, FI-26100\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Pori, Merisatamantie , 4, FI-28880\nFinland, Mariehamn, Hamngatan, 24, AX-22100\nLatvija (LV), Riga, Kalpaka blvd, 12, LV-1010\nEesti (EE), Tallinn, Sadama , 25, EE-15051\nSverige (SE), Norrköping, Oceangatan, 22, SE-60238\nSverige (SE), Oxelösund, Skeppargatan, 28, SE-61331\n",null,null,null,7]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","The project aims at increasing the competitiveness of youngsters at the international construction labour market. The more specific challenge of the project is related to attracting youth to study practical skills that would raise their competitiveness for working at woodhouse manufacturing companies. As the woodhouse manufacturing industry is steadily growing along with the increasing popularity of wood as a sustainable construction material, the industry is in constant need for the skilled labour force.\n\nThe construction industry has always had a very traditional approach to education, but it needs to be changed in order to be sustainable and attractive for today’s youth. This requires launching and piloting new learning methods (more engaging, more inclusive) and programs, including internships for hands-on learning of practical skills. \n\nThe project team representing the best know-how of the industries and universities of applied science will jointly create training programs based on interactive e-learning and hands-on practical internships and run the programs twice during the project with altogether 150 graduates (ca 50 from Estonia, ca 50 from Finland and ca 50 from Latvia). \n\nIn the Wood for Youth project, we strive to produce high-quality teaching material and courses that meet the requirements of a university of applied sciences. Team is aiming to create training program for 30 credit points. As extra, these trainings can be included in other universities and (vocational) schools via microdegree, open course program. As well it's possible to provide additional credit points and certifications (non-degree).\n\nTo train competitive youngsters for the international labour market of the Central Baltic countries, the partners integrate also international standards of woodhouse manufacturing and cross-border internships in the training programs. \n\nAll Universities, who are project partners, are working under national legislations and which in turn bases on the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF) and it responds to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) levels 0-7/8. Although vocational schools are not directly project partners, then partners are involving them project as mentors and distributors.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",2259591.06,"ERDF",1807672.83,80,"In the first period of the project, we achieved several significant milestones. Here are the key accomplishments:\n\n- Team Building: in the first period of the project, the partners worked on recruiting the necessary people, who will play vital roles in the administration and content development of the project. In addition, the structure of the learning programme was designed and the topics were divided among the partners. Each partner recruited people to work on the respective topics.\n\n- Kick-off meeting: the project was launched with a successful face-to-face meeting in Estonia. Additionally, 10 online project management meetings were held to keep everyone aligned. The meetings are constructive, and all partners participate actively.\n\n- Steering Group Committee: a Steering Group Committee was established, and the first meeting was held online, project goals were introduced and agreed on decision-making process. There are currently three members in the Steering Group, but negotiations are ongoing to include a fourth member from Finland.  The SG group currently includes the Development Director of Tallinn School of Construction, who has extensive experience in working with young people and organising internships abroad; the Development Manager of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, who works in an organisation that deals with one of the target groups of the project - unemployed youngsters. From Latvia, the head of the construction department of Riga Building College is involved in the SG group, also providing a competent perspective from the college. It is planned to involve a representative from a vocational training institution in Finland.\n\n- Target Group Analysis: in cooperation with partners, questionnaires were designed to survey two target groups: youngsters and industry representatives. In 2nd period target personas will be created accordingly the analysis. \n\n-  Training Program Structure: based on the results of a survey of the target audience and industry, a more detailed structure of the training programme was developed. As analysis showed that there is a big interest in studying design and management and a need from the industry to teach these skills. Design and Management training modules were added to the program.  \n\n- Mapping educational materials: partners gathered existing materials they have, in order to have an overview of all the materials that can be used to create learning programmes.\n\nIn summary, the first period of the project has been characterised by preparatory work, team building and following project action plan. The commitment of our partners and the in-depth analyses carried out will make a significant contribution to the success of Wood for Youth. We are excited about the journey ahead and the positive impact it will have on the timber industry and youth education.\nIn the second period of the project there were two main activities all project partners were working on: drafting and compilation of study materials and visualisation and layout of the study programs. Additionally project communication and project management are ongoing activities through all project periods. \n\nHere are the key accomplishments:\n\n-\tContent creation: creating study materials for all four specialisations was the main task in period two. Evaluation process for introduction module and module 2 (Production of wooden elements) content was started. In evaluation process, companies and partners are giving their feedback and making comments for the material created. In third period the corrections will be made, and the module will be finalized for content production (videos, animations etc).\n\n-\tVisualisation of study materials: To get better understanding how the final study materials need to be visualised for the study program, demo filming for instructional videos in the factory was done according to the study book. This also gave to the team better understanding of the whole process – what else needs to be considered and done before finalizing the content. \n\n-\tFace-to-face workshop in Helsinki was organised to go through the instructional design topics with the partners.\n\n-\tPreparations for the platform and filming procurements were done.\n\n-\tProject landing page was published in EE, FI, LV. Project implementation was actively promoted by partners.\n\n-\tWeekly project management meetings were held together with meetings between LP and partners separately.\n\n-\tProject report and partner reports were prepared.\n\n-\tSteering Group Committee: a Steering Group Committee got fourth member from Finland. Online Steering group meeting was held to give overview of the processes ongoing. \n\nIn the second period, the project focused on drafting and compiling study materials, visualizing study programs, and maintaining continuous communication and management. Content creation for all specializations progressed, with evaluation and feedback from partners and companies to finalize the modules, while demo filming and workshops enhanced instructional design. The project was promoted through landing pages in Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, and the Steering Group Committee expanded with a new member from Finland to review ongoing processes.\n","Valmiera, Helsinki, Tallinn, Pori","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},5]
["CB0100046","Joint Strategies for Companies in Silver Economy: Attracting and Retaining Silver Age Employees","The main objective of \"Silver Strategies\" is to improve labour market opportunities for people of pre-retirement and retirement age (silver age, 55+). The goal is to develop joint antidiscrimination strategies for CB companies and sets of measures to be implemented by companies. \n\nCommon labour market challenges in the CB region:\n1) ageing population, the burden on social systems, the well-being of seniors;\n2) shortage of labour force, shortage of certain skills in labour market;\n3) fully un-used economic potential of silver age people;\n4) fully unused potential of flexible forms of work, e.g., part-time and remote work.\n\nThe main outputs:\n1) joint strategies for workplaces to recruit and retain silver age employees;\n2) sets of antidiscrimination measures at 36 companies in Latvia, Estonia, Finland;\n3) a joint training program for company managers, HR managers, coaches, consultants on antidiscrimination strategies and measures, + joint training events, expertise-sharing mobilities; \nThe outputs will be presented in and online Handbook.\nThose who benefit will be SMEs, larger companies, labour market at large; business support organizations, and mainly: silver age people by improving their employment opportunities.\n\nA cross-border approach will enable learning and expertise-sharing in the region. It will serve regional labour market integration, labour mobilities, cooperation of companies. \n\nThe main steps:\n\n\n1. Preparation, planning > \n\n2. Designing joint strategies and measures, joint training > \n\n3. Implementation of sets of measures in companies, expertise-sharing visits, mobilitie \n\n4. Review and analysis of testing results. + Communication and awareness-raising activities.\n\nSilver Strategies is the first attempt to propose regional and company-level antidiscrimination measures supporting employment opportunities for seniors.\n\nTotal budget: EUR 588 933,60, LCCI: 205 647,20; ECCI: 171 351,20; SAMK: 211 935,20","2023-03-01","2025-08-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",533066.4,"ERDF",426453.12,80,"The Silver Strategies project implementation process is progressing smoothly, with no significant issues. The core team, comprising members from our partner organizations has been successfully formed and is working effectively, demonstrating excellent collaboration and expertise.\nMicrosoft Teams is used for project management and communication and is complemented by emails and regular online meetings. This approach ensures everyone is consistently informed and involved in the project.\nThe project steering group has been successfully established and is showing a strong interest in the project. Their enthusiasm also reinforces the project's relevance and encourages us to address the existing issue for retirement and preretirement age group workers, that has been highlighted by the project.\nRegarding project outputs, the diverse expertise within our team is a major asset, providing valuable insights and enhancing our work. Initially, we focused on research, laying a solid foundation for future project phases. This initial research is crucial for the project's continued success and future outcomes.\nIn the second period, the main concern for the project was the recruitment of companies to be involved in the Silver Strategies project and to develop their plans. The activities related to the 55+ age group — recruitment, retention, and other relevant challenges. The recruitment process took longer and required more effort than expected, mainly due to the economic situation, changes in personnel within the companies, and some unexpected dropouts of previously confirmed participants. However, the goal was achieved, and 36 companies were recruited, although, for the workshop in Tartu, Estonia (start of period 3), not all of them were present.\nThe companies that were recruited seem very motivated and interested because the topics are relevant and engaging for them. It is also important to note that most of the participants are larger companies than initially expected (SMEs). Additionally, various industries were represented across different countries, with some companies coming from similar industries and exhibiting varying levels of maturity. This diversity provided valuable insights and additional networking opportunities between participants.\nAnother main focus was the Tartu event itself, which involved planning and preparation work. This also included the finalisation of some deliverables and necessary adjustments. ","Riga, Tallinn, Pori","LV, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Immigrant women face different barriers to employment, such as societal (e.g. structural discrimination and inaccessible public services), domestic (e.g. family responsibilities or unsupportive attitudes of family members) and individual (e.g. lack of some of the necessary skills and competencies needed in the labour market) barriers. Hence, they need additional measures to improve their access to and position in the labour market.\nThe Central Baltic (CB) countries have recently experienced a large increase in the number of refugees. Most of the Ukrainian refugees are women with a need for a fast track into working life. Even with the EU-CARE initiative and other measures, only a small portion of these women have been employed in the region, emphasizing the pressing need for additional measures. \nThe objective of the project is to increase the employability of immigrant women through a model which helps to overcome individual, domestic, and societal barriers. As a result, the participants will have a clear understanding of their employment opportunities, an increase in skills and a clear chart of the steps needed for employment. They will also have the necessary support to take these steps through mentoring. After participation the immigrant women will have secured employment, or a clear understanding of the actions still needed to gain employment.\nCross-border co-operation is necessary since all partners now have a common challenge of the increase of refugees. By joining forces, there is a better chance of employing not only Ukrainian refugees but increasing future crisis preparedness in the CB region. The strength of the cross-border team is its complementary expertise, such as mentoring and social support (LV), capacity building (EE), overcoming societal and domestic barriers (SE) and co-creation (FI). \nThis project involves immigrant women and stakeholders in all its activities, strengthening impact and guaranteeing sustainability of the developed solutions.","2023-04-01","2026-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",1100848.45,"ERDF",880678.74,80,"Summary of CeMeWE Project Progress:\n\nThe CeMeWE project, initiated during this reporting period, has made significant strides in achieving its primary objectives and establishing a strong foundation for collaborative efforts among partners. The main achievements include:\n\n1. Project Planning and Coordination:\n   - Detailed project plan, including timelines, roles, and responsibilities.\n   - Establishment of regular communication channels for effective knowledge sharing.\n   - Formation of a steering group to guide project activities.\n\n2. Stakeholder Engagement and Insight Gathering:\n   - Initiation of discussions with stakeholders and potential beneficiaries to understand their needs and challenges.\n   - Appointing two NGOs to support in the planning, development, and implementation of the project.\n\n3. Joint Learning Process and Tools Dissemination:\n   - Facilitation of a cross-border workshop to kickstart the joint learning process.\n   - Cooperation with NGOs for tools and processes to support information gathering.\n   - Piloting the mentoring process, although temporarily interrupted due to a project worker's resignation.\n\n4. Regional Analysis and Support Program Identification:\n   - Extensive administrative work by Zemgale planning region to start and establish project management systems.\n   - Creation of stakeholder maps and identification of existing training and support programs in the region.\n   - Collaboration with Finnish organizations to gain insights into support programs.\n\n5. Methodology Development and Adoption:\n   - Development of a mentoring program methodology by the lead partner (LP).\n   - Adoption of LP's methodology by Zemgale planning region to identify domestic and social barriers affecting immigrant women's employment.\n\n6. Communication and Outreach:\n   - The Institute of Baltic Studies (IBS) actively contributed to project development, researched tools, and identified best practices.\n   - Planning of micro-learning video development and communication of project aims to local stakeholders.\n\n7. Local Initiatives and Inventory:\n   - Zemgale planning region's initiation of management tasks, team building, and regional situation exploration.\n   - Compilation of existing tools and methods suitable for immigrant women in co-creative processes.\n\n8. Workshops and Prototyping:\n   - Organization of workshops for target groups testing different tools for co-design.\n   - Creation of a serious game prototype to identify obstacles and resources on the path to employment.\n\nDespite some challenges, including a temporary interruption in the mentoring process, the CeMeWE project has made remarkable progress. The collaborative efforts, stakeholder engagement, and methodological developments contribute to the added value of this cooperation, promising positive impacts on immigrant women's employability.","Riga, Uppsala, Jelgava, Tartu,  Hyvinkää","LV, SE, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","The pandemic was a challenge for organizations that provide face-to-face integration services for migrants. It showed that there is a need to modernize integration services and develop them to meet the mode of action of today. The biggest challenges are not access to equipment or the digital skills of the service users, but the services themselves: How to turn the communicative, active and participative nature of individual and group-based integration services into the virtual, digital world? \n\nThe main objective of VINCE is to develop and improve public integration services. The project will develop a joint model of a virtual integration center, containing both existing and new integration services. The model is coded into a digital platform that forms a technical basis for developing prototype platforms for the partners, according to their local needs. \n\nSome of the integration services will be common for all participating organizations, for example native and easy-language health advise material, open discussion groups in native languages etc. Other services will be designed more specifically for the participating organizations. \n\nThe center will promote two-way integration processes in communities. The model and the platform will be done in co-creation with the target group (migrants) and service providers in order to ensure their inclusion and maximize the adequacy of the platform. During the project, new networks between integration organizations are established which enables sharing of material, knowledge and good practices. \n\nThe integration center model that is compiled and described will support new organizations in establishing their own integration center. Municipalities, NGOs and other organizations that work in the field of integration will benefit from the project. \n\nTotal budget 2 599 443 euro. Budget per partner: TUAS 659 932, Turku 548 535, Sateenkaari Koto 272 319, FMC 731 582, CAB-O 387 075.","2023-04-01","2026-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",2214512.47,"ERDF",1771609.96,80,"During this first period of the project, the first prototype of the mobile application was developed. A significant decision was to prioritize mobile platforms for the time being. This choice stemmed from the fact that most migrants lack access to desktop or laptop devices, not to mention VR devices. It was also decided to exclude children and illiterate end-users for the time being. These decisions were made in cooperation with all partners.  \n  \nThe process of mapping the needs of the end users started, as well as the planning of the first workshops for end-users and organizations. The Finnish partners arranged a first service design training in September 2023. Tentative discussions about the local organizations’ demands for virtual integration services have been held in both Finland and Sweden.\n\nData management issues were discussed extensively. Since the project deals with a vulnerable target group, it is crucial that the amount of personal data that is gathered by the mobile application is limited to only the most basic information. To ensure secure data management, the Lead partner used the expert knowledge of Turku UAS’s data management staff, and these discussions will continue during the project. Ethics issues and permissions have been considered as an important part of the project. \n\nMany of the activities during the first reporting period were of administrative character: The Subsidy contract and the Partnership agreement were signed and a kick-off meeting for all project partners was held in April 2023 (as a hybrid meeting).\n\nPartner meetings were held each month except from the summer months (mainly as online meetings), and both Finnish partners and the Swedish partners met separately a couple of times to discuss issues regarding the local cooperation and the connections to the target groups. \n\nA communications team, with representatives from all partners has been formed. Information about the project is visible on all partners’ websites and the webspace that is provided by Central Baltic has been put into use. Sateenkaari Koto presented the project for the public and for its target groups during Turku Day in September 2023, and the project staff has been actively promoting the project on LinkedIn. \n\nRepresentatives for the Lead partner took part in Central Baltic’s Lead partner seminar in Helsinki, and in September 2023 the Swedish partners visited Turku. The first internal evaluation was sent to the project staff at the end of September 2023 (see annex). \n\nAs Lead partner, Turku UAS provided guidance for the other project partners regarding administrative, financial, communication and reporting issues. Turku UAS also compiled an application for national co-funding on behalf of all three Finnish project partners.\n\nDuring period 2, the activities of the projects were mostly concentrated on gathering basic information needed for the application, and on further developing the prototype version of the app.  \n\nA service map, with information about what kind of services the partners provide for migrants at the moment, was compiled and analyzed (draft version attached). The service map will be used when deciding on which services will be provided jointly in the app.\n\nWorkshops for NGOs and organizations were arranged by Turku, Turku UAS and FMC, and workshops for migrants were arranged by Sateenkaari Koto and FMC (FMC’s workshops were arranged in cooperation with CAB-O).\n\nThe overall style of the VINCE application and its user interface was further developed, and the optimizing of mobile features for virtual environments was making significant progress. A 3D meeting space was designed, modelled, optimized, and included in the app. Another space, a Nordic home -inspired room was designed and modelled (although it still needs to be optimized before it is included in the app).  \n\nAI-powered language service providers have been discussed but no decision has been made yet. All most up-to-date and high-end neural machine translators charge money per real-time language translation, so the costs must be considered before making the decision.  \n\nThere was also an ongoing discussion about data management and privacy issues related to the app. \nDuring this period, meetings between FMC’s health communicators and Turku’s native language advisors were arranged. The purpose was to create contacts between the Finnish and Swedish staff members, who work directly with the end users, and gather information about the needs of the migrants in Finland and Sweden. Sateenkaari Koto’s new project coordinator was also invited to the later of these meetings. \n\nStarting from January 2024, a communication team gathered for online meetings. The team consists of representatives for all partners, and its purpose is to plan and coordinate the communication activities of the project. The team updated the communication plan (attached), agreed on the schedule and content of upcoming blog posts and started thinking about how to market the app when it is ready for public use. Project news and blog posts have been published on the project webspace, and some of the posts have also been published using the partners’ own channels and on staff members’ personal LinkedIn accounts. Information about the project’s communication activities and links to posts have been uploaded to the attachment section of this report. \n\nPartner online meetings were held approximately once a month, and the first steering group meeting was held in December 2023 (steering group memo attached). In November 2023, the Finnish partners visited Sweden and got acquainted with the working environment and cooperation network of the Swedish partners. \n\nA second internal evaluation was carried out in April 2024. A summary and a comparison of the first and second evaluation can be found as an attachment to this report. \n","Linköping, Norrköping, Turku","SE, FI",null,"Suomi/Finland (FI), Turku, Joukahaisenkatu, 3, 20520\n",null,null,null,5]
["CB0400165","Equal Access and Support in the Workforce for migrants and refugees","The focus of this application will aim not only at giving newcomers to the country an equal opportunity but supporting them in adapting in the workforce. It is the right of employees to have access to support to perform their best, and it is in the interest of employers, sectors, and countries in the region to provide that support as an integral part of the employment policies to increase efficiency and stability in the economy in the long term. In recent years the workforce in both Finland and Estonia, and in the Central Baltic Region has diversified greatly. This is especially true in the last year when Estonia received 62,000 Ukrainian refugees and Finland 45,000 due to the war in Ukraine. While there has been a long tradition of migrant workers from Estonia in Finland the increasing diversification means that businesses must also adapt their anti-discrimination policies so that they not only give equal access, but do so in a way that supports the cultural diversities of new residents in both countries. The fact that this need is shared directly between Estonia and Finland can be seen in the policy to resettle Ukrainian refugees in Estonia to Finland and the continuing movement of workforce between the two countries and within the region. In January 2023, Finland agreed to receive 50-100 Ukrainians a week to resettle from Estonia to Finland. In order to resettle and support these and other individuals, it is essential that both countries have work environments that support international employees in achieving their full potential in the local working environment. \nThe overall objective of this project is therefore to work together with organizations in Finland and Estonia that often hire the largest amount of migrant workers to understand what their current anti-discrimination policies are and how these can and need to be improved to support migrant workers in the current and future context of diversifying work forces. The main output will be working closely with the organizations that hire migrants or refugees and working with NGOs that support migrants and refugees in adapting to identify the key changes that need to be made. We will work together with the organizations to apply these changes in the anti-discrimination policies of 10 businesses in both Estonia and Finland. This change in policy will not end with the organizations that implement them but will spread to the general business culture in both Estonia and Finland and eventually the entire region. On the receiving end, migrants and refugees will benefit from having the support they need to find work that matches their skills and qualifications. Organizations hiring migrants and refugees will themselves see easier access and have a stronger know how about including new workers into their workforce to increase efficiency and avoid an under utilized labour force. The local economy and society of Finland and Estonia will also benefit from the application of these policies which show that equal access alone is not enough but when complimented with support in the form of trainings and work culture acclimation. \nPartners will approach this project in three steps: 1) Analysis of the employment trends and needs concerning migrant workers and access/support to integrate into the workplace in Estonia and Finland 2) interviewing refugees and migrants to learn about their needs 3) Working with NGOs and businesses that work with migrants to learn about and compare their anti-discrimination policies and needs 4) Negotiating with businesses about which practices they can include in their anti-discrimination policies and implement these changes in the organizational documents and 5) sharing results about the improved anti-discrimination policies for future application. Due to the movement of people between Estonia and Finland and the previously discussed diversification of the workforce, this is a project which must be done cross-boarder and have the potential to be spread further in the Central Baltic Region and beyond. \nThis project is original because it works to create a new standard of what it means to implement an anti-discrimination policy. Most organizations already have anti-discrimination policies if they hire migrant or refugee workers, but this policy can be much more effective and economically beneficial if it includes the support needed to grant equal access to migrant and refugee workers to succeed in their place of employment. Moreover two of the main partners are Universities with applied research foci and many NGO and local municipality cooperations that will show how informed based anti-discrimination policies are more sustainable in the long run.","2023-10-01","2025-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",213491,"ERDF",170792.8,80,"We aimed to find out the challenges migrants/refugees meet in society and in labor market. By reviewing current literature (Desktop research) we received valuable information about migrant's and refugee's situation. We designed a joint  interview guide for all partners that the interviews are done in the same way in Finland and Estonia. Interviews (n=60) have deepen our insight on challenges migrants and refugees meet, both in society, labor marker and in everyday life. We have started to recruit companies, who are interested to collaborate with EASWork in forming anti-discrimination policy at workplaces.Project has been active in communication and visibility activities. The project was present at Oodi, Helsinki library during the Europe Day event where Finnish National Contact Point had a stand. Finnish National Contact Point has also invited the project to her podcast. ","Helsinki, Tartu","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","The lack of sustainable mobility solutions in rural areas is a common problem with similar challenges in both Sweden, Latvia and many other EU countries. The countryside is car-dependent and accounts for a large part of the traffic that affects the environment and climate of both cities and entire regions. \n\nThe main result of SuRuMo is to develop one cross border digital plattform which can include various physical mobility solutions to be used by citizens and one tool for estimation of mobility patterns to be used by traffic planners to map areas where new mobility solutions can be introduced. These tools will together, in this project, directly benefit the citizens in rural areas in Latvia and Sweden but will also provide the opportunity for other countries, and not only rural areas, to lower the threshold for introducing sustainable shared mobility solutions \n\nSuRuMo will apply and have a big focus on a participatory approach to better address local needs and strengthen local awareness and support for new mobility approaches. Conditions will be created for including a breadth of user groups and create opportunities for increased equality by giving more people access to sustainable and efficient transports. \n\nPilots will be designed, monitored and evaluated in new partnerships between municipalities, public transport companies, private market actors in cooperation with local target groups. \n\nA common cross border framework and method support will be used in order to be able to compare and evaluate results in the project. In this way, a robustness is created in the development of both the tools and the working method, which is expected to provide better conditions for dissemination and use in other countries and places.","2023-05-01","2026-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",1627226.65,"ERDF",1301781.31,80,"During the period, we initiated the project. The kickoff was in Sweden (Juni 14 och 15).\nThe sites where the mobility pilots are to be conducted where mapped and benchmarked in order to get a better understanding of current solutions that might be possible to build upon.","Riga, Saldus, Norrköping, Linköping","LV, SE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["CB0100094","Central Baltic Young Entrepreneurs","The world of work is changing quicker than ever but school is still preparing students mainly for taking (not creating) jobs only in their own countries. Quick development of IT, Covid-19 and uncertainty in many other aspects has demonstrated clearly the need to update the old system and pay attention to developing flexibility, autonomous motivation, teamwork skills, tolerance towards differences, empathy at workplace, readiness to make quick changes and take leadership if needed. Entrepreneurial mindset has to be developed in young people for giving them two career options: to become an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur - an entrepreneurial employee ready to improve processes at any workplace. As the world of work and entrepreneurship is not limited to one country anymore, young people must think wider, understand that they will work together with different nations as employers or as employees.\nThis project plans to bring together youth from Estonia, Finland and Latvia to teach them international entrepreneurship and develop teaching material that is piloted during the project time with three international groups, amended by these results and made available to wider public. In addition to forming entrepreneurial attitudes students will obtain knowledge about cultural differences and working in multinational teams, working cultures in CB countries, communication with different customers, presenting their ideas and products, problem solving, leadership, organizing virtual meetings, marketing (including virtual marketing), business ethics, future skills, etc.\nWe will organize student workshops, international job shadowing and trade fairs together and in all countries. Students start their minicompanies, analyze each others' ideas, do market researches at home and abroad, work in international teams. A system for job shadowing abroad will be created. Budget: 1479271.78 EUR, for JA Estonia 545363.32 EUR, JA Latvia 402468.78 EUR and JA Finland 531439.68 EUR.","2023-09-01","2026-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",1479271.78,"ERDF",1183417.41,80,"300 students have received knowledge and skills in international entrepreneurship.\nLearning materials created during the project help teachers to add international aspect to their entrepreneurship studies in VETs and in upper secondary schools.","Riga, Helsinki, Tallinn","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Although countries around the Baltic Sea have taken measures for reduction of emissions of nutrients, hazardous substances, several priority hazardous substances and specific pollutants are still released to the environment through urban stormwater systems - not only nutrients (N, P), but increasingly oil products, metals (lead and copper), organic pollutants and other substances of concern to environment.\n\nThe common challenge of the Project Partners is to develop digital and technical solutions for multi-objective stormwater planning and learn how to improve the efficiency of the urban stormwater treatment of above mentioned nutrients and substances.\n\nThe common territorial challenge of the project has multidimensional nature, which requires deep expertise in various aspects of stormwater management. Cross-border co-operation will ensure this, by producing significant technological innovation - new multi-benefit smart nature-based solutions in 7 pilot sites of 4 countries (1 in Tallinn, EE; 1 in Viimsi, EE; 2 in Pori, FI; 1 in Riga, LV; 2 in Söderhamn, SE) integrating the components of 1) purification and reuse of stormwater close to the source and 2) managing-controlling of the storm water fluxes during the rain events as well as monitoring of hazardous substances and toxins.\n\nTo achieve these results, Project will include series of logically interconnected work packages - Analysis and Design, Installation of New Solutions, and Monitoring of Pilot Investments. Modern communication tools are used to implement the project results and to ensure sustainability of the developed solutions to be used in municipalities and cities in Central Baltic area and beyond.","2023-05-01","2026-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",3980475.8,"ERDF",3184380.64,80,"First period of the project focused on setting up the project and conducting preparatory activities that lay the foundation of the projects main goals.\n\nFirst activity of the project was establishing water quality baseline for demo sites, through that baseline target levels were also calculated. Joint Secretariate set the condition that initial water quality baseline should be set within the first month of the project. This activity produced report on water quality baseline data, deliverable “D.3.2.1”.\n\n19-20.09.2023 MUSTBE projects kick-off meeting was held in Viimsi. Within the kick-off meeting project work package leaders introduced the upcoming activities of different work packages, joint secretariate introduced rules of the ongoing Interreg Central Baltic program period and partners visited Viimsi and Tallinn demo sites. \n\nActivity 1.1 development of GIS database was concluded within first reporting period. Activity was led by TalTech and it resulted in GIS database with spatial information. Within the activity partners compiled the necessary GIS data or conducted geodetical measurements and TalTech analyzed the information. The activity concluded in GIS database with spatial information, deliverable “D.1.1.1”.\n\nActivity 1.2 Field surveys was concluded within first reporting period. Within the activity demo site owners conducted relevant field surveys for their demo site and planned technical solution. Tasks within this activity were meant to give necessary input for designing planned multi-objective stormwater treatment systems, so that municipalities and supporting partners would get best possible overview of the conditions present at the demo sites. This activity concluded in survey report with deliverable “D.1.2.1”.\n\nWithin activity 1.6 a co-creation event was held in Riga 18-19.10.2023. Within the event partners together with multiple outside subject matter experts regarding to stormwater treatment and multi objective stormwater systems looked at all demo sites and brainstormed potential technical solutions for demo sites. This event served as a lynchpin from which ideas were created and discussed with experts and other project partners, and those discussions served as a input for activity 1.3. \n\nDuring first period activity 1.3 started within which TalTech, RTU and SAMK started compiling preliminary demo site designs together with the municipalities. Universities held meetings with municipalities to discuss design ideas and technical solutions for each demo sites problems. Also in preparation of supporting Söderhamn with design of their demo sites TalTech visited Söderhamn demo sites in June.\n\nWithin the activity 3.1 a monitoring program was set up so that future sampling will be done under similar rules and regulations which will ensure that results from different sites are comparable. This activity concluded in survey report with deliverable “D.3.1.1\n\nWithin the first period MUSTBE project compiled its communications strategy, deliverable “D.3.5.5”. Also during the first period myriad of communications activities were conducted resulting in following deliverables: “D.3.5.1”, “D.3.5.2”, “D.3.5.3”, “D.3.5.4” and “D”3.5.9”. Also the project compiled general communications report “P1 Communications report – general”.\n","Riga, Söderhamn, Pori, Tallinn, Rauma, Viimsi","LV, SE, FI, EE",null,"Eesti (EE), Haabneeme Parish, Viimsi Municipality, Randvere Road, 21, 11912\nEesti (EE), Tallinn, Kristiine and Mustamäe district, Nõmme Str 107 and A.H.Tammsaare Str 68. , not attached yet, 13418; 13413\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Pori, area between Iltaruskontie and Kempintie, not attached yet, FI-28200\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Pori, Keskusaukio , not attached yet, not attached yet\nLatvija (LV), Riga, Šmerļupīte area, Riga, not attached yet, LV-1003\nSverige (SE), Söderhamn, Broberg district, not attached yet, not attached yet, not attached yet\nSverige (SE), Söderhamn, Söderhamnsporten district, not attached yet, not attached yet, not attached yet\n",null,null,null,8]
["CB0100106","Enabling scaling through corporate-scaleup commercial collaborations.","CB SCALE-ABLE project is tackling the underused potential that can be achieved through the systematic matchmaking of corporations and scaling technology companies. Corporations are representing a good opportunity for technology-based scaling companies to enter new markets; establish joint product and service development; establish investment links. These opportunities are often misused as scaling companies are not valuing collaboration with corporations and the corporations lack the know-how to work together. \n\nCB SCALE-ABLE project is setting up a systematic approach on business matchmaking where the partners take the role of a facilitator – bridging the collaboration between scaleups and corporations. Project sets up a framework and raises the awareness of corporates and scaleups, pre-validates the companies for perfect match, matchmakes the companies to establish collaboration, supervises the collaborations till success.\n\nCB SCALE-ABLE project joins 60+ corporations and 120+ scaling technology companies in trending technology verticals. Matchmaking and collaboration supervisory results with 20 successful cases with direct impact on scaleups and 4 superstar cases with striking high impact on scaling company. \n\nThe main beneficiaries are scaling SMEs, corporations and business support organisations capable to establish the repeatable system for matchmaking and cross-border collaborations. \n\nTo achieve the project results, cross-border collaboration is critical to: engage a decent pool of scaling and corporate companies for successful matchmaking process; provide P2P learning across stakeholders; and to establish the universal methodology between partners for future usage. \n\nCB SCALE-ABLE aims to establish a new and innovative methodology to generate working scaleup-corporate matches. The systematic way to use the cross-border opportunities provided by corporations is something never practiced before.","2023-04-01","2025-09-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1703578.41,"ERDF",1362862.72,80,"The project's 1st period (April-September 2023) focused primarily on partner-centric activities, preparation & collaboration works for setting up the SCALE-ABLE framework & roadmap for onboarding SMEs & corporates to the project. \nTasks like: setting up (bi)weekly partner coordination + Steering Committee meetings & preparations for the meetings; setting up a joint material sharing & communication platform (Teams); composing a schedule & roadmap to reach project goals; setting up an onboarding platform for SMEs & corporates; preparation of SCALE-ABLE marketing & communication materials; participating in various events and seminars to introduce the project & scouting for SMEs & corporates; launching the 1st call-to-action & onboarding campaign.  \n\nIn addition, the legal documentation for a secure collaboration between SMEs & corporate is being developed (NDA). Legal documentation will be provided by the Lead Partner (Tehnopol) and shared with all the project partners.\n\n1st period included preparations for the first informative kick-off seminar to introduce the project & answer to the project participants questions (to be held online on the 23rd of November 2023 in Tallinn) & the 1st matchmaking event (to be held 30th-31st of January 2024 in Norrköping). The first onboarding period was been launched, project partners agreed on the roles for the 1st information seminar and 1st workshop & matchmakng event. As well, partners agreed on the KPI’s (4 onboarded corporates & 8-10 startups per partner organisation) for the 1st workshop & matchmaking event. 1st reporting period ended with partners onboarding the first corporates & SMEs.\n\n\nThe following events were held/ participated at in the 1st reporting period (April-September 2023):\n⁃\t25.04.2023-26.04.2023 1st Project partners face-to-face kick off meeting – Organised by Tehnopol, in Tallinn.\n⁃\t25.04.2023-06.07.2023 / 10.08.2023-30.09.2023 Project Partners (bi)weekly Coordination meetings (online) – Organised by Lead Partner (Tehnopol). Agendas combined based on partners feedback & questions + project goals.\n⁃\t25.05.2023-26.05.2023 Tehnopol representatives participating in Latitude event to introduce the Scale-Able project & scout the companies.\n⁃\t05.06.2023 1st Steering Committee meeting (online) – Organised by Lead Partner (Tehnopol)\n⁃\t10.08.2023 Project Partners branding workshop for effective marketing & onboarding (online) - Organised by Lead Partner (Tehnopol)\n⁃\t16.08.2023 Scale-Able onboarding platform’s Ignite Magic introduction & Needs assessment Workshop (online) – Organised by Project Partner (SISP/Ignite)\n⁃\t14.09.2023 Scale-Able onboarding framework & road map workshop (online) – Organised by Lead partner (Tehnopol) and Project Partner (SISP/Ignite)\n⁃\t20.09.2023 Lead Partner's (Tehnopol) representatives participating in ,,Äriplaan'' conference to introduce & market the Scale-Able project and onboard the companies.\n⁃\t27.09.2023 2nd Steering Committee meeting (online) – Organised by Lead Partner (Tehnopol)\n⁃\t28.09.2023 Launching call-to-action & opening the onboarding for SMEs (open until 30th of November) & corporates (open until 31st of October) onboarding for the 1st matchmaking event (held on the 30th & 31st of January 2024 in Norrköping)\nThe 2nd period of the project focused at launching the first bootcamp period of the project where SMEs are matched with corporations and opportunities for collaborations are defined, initiated. The aim of the matchmaking is to find joint product development, business model development, investment or sales opportunities between the SMEs and corporations. \n\nThe framework of the first bootcamp period includes call for action for the corporations and mapping their interests/challenges; call for action for the SMEs to answer the indicated challenges; onboarding the companies to IGNITE Magic platform (software for matchmaking and follow-up activates); preliminary matchmaking; on-site training and matchmaking session to kick off the collaborations and follow-ups; supervising and mentoring the follow-up collaborations to reach the SME growth targets. \n\nBefore the first bootcamp period, the partners also developed a call for action communication material, marketing and PR plan, website amendments, held the hybrid version of kick-off event for the interested companies, designed materials for feedback collection and mentoring.  \n\nThe engagement target for Scale ABLE call to action and first bootcamp – training session and matchmaking event was set to 45-50 participating companies (approximately 10-15 corporations and 35-40 SMEs). This target was met successfully as in total there where 62 companies participating in the training session and 46 companies participating in matchmaking session (15 corporations and 31 SMEs). \n\nThe corporations participating the first bootcamp include well-known ones like Fortum, Royal Caribbean Group, SEB, Elisa, SAAB, Skanska, Siemens etc. The participating SMEs included almost equal number of companies from Estonia, Finland and Sweden, providing solutions in the areas of energy and sustainability, productivity tools, material technologies, SaaS software etc. \n\nThe main onsite event was organized in Norrkoping on the 30th to 31st of January 2024. During these two days an introduction seminar to launch collaborations was held, while the second day concentrated on matchmaking (one-on-one meetings). More than 10 follow-up matches where established and these companies entered a bootcamp where SMEs and corporations validate their initial interest and agree upon future developments, supervised by project consortia members and external mentors. \n\nFeedback from the first bootcamp period proved that the methodology of the project is well received and useful for the companies. According to the feedback around 65% of the participating companies scored the matchmaking event with the maximum score of 5/5 and 34% as 4/5. \n\nIn addition of launching the first bootcamp of Scale ABLE project, the 2nd reporting period also had the following important milestones, events: \n- October: Call-to-action period for onboarding corporations and validation of the companies. \n- November: Call-to-action period for onboarding SMEs and validation of the companies. \n- 23rd of November: Kick-off seminar for the companies (hybrid). \n- October until December: Onboarding the companies to IGNITE Magic platform, preliminary matchmaking. \n- January: Final corporation and SME selection for 1st matchmake event. \n- 30th and 31st of January: Workshops, on-site tours and 1st matchmaking event in Sweden, Norrkoping (Face-to-face), ongoing follow-up of matched companies. \n- February: Steering Group meeting and feedback analyses. \n- February-March - preparation of the 2nd  open call, preparations for the matchmaking event in September 2024 in Stockholm. ","Turku, Stockholm, Norrköping, Tallinn","FI, SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Young people have been affected in terms of employment, education, training, and mental well-being by the damage and instability of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic recovery crushed by the Ukrainian war. They are exposed to higher risks of unemployment, face strong uncertainties in labour market entry and stable integration. In particular, young people in CB rural areas face a double challenge. \n\nThe objective of the Tour4Youth project is to improve employment opportunities of young people living in CB rural areas on CB labour market. The project focuses on tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors, which social role in accompanying young people into the labour market is crucial. These sectors are also a lifeline for employment in rural areas due to structural changes in rural employment landscape. \n\nThe main target groups are unemployed young people with a relevant degree, young people graduating with the risk of unemployment or dropping out their studies. The project increases their skills in career management and job search, ensures a smoother transition from education to work, provides opportunities to access quality employment and get work experience to build a resilient career. This, in turn, encourages them to get bound to rural areas and establish their life in their community.\n\nThe project makes a fundamental change in youth employment. Its main result is a concrete number (n=100) of young people with increased competitiveness on labour market. To achieve this, various labour market services are provided: 1) a training course in career management and job seeking, 2) labour market matchmaking services, and 3) short-time work schemes locally and cross-borders. \n\nThe novelty value lies in the project approach to provide to this lockdown generation living in CB rural areas individualised, holistic, and sector-specific support in cross-border and multi-actor collaboration throughout their journey beyond the current standard procedures.","2023-08-01","2025-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",781669.63,"ERDF",625335.6800000001,80,"Highlights: \n-\tSAMK conducted the project management and communications management for the project, prepared the Project Modification, and took responsibility of WP1 starting December 2023. \n-\tKPR participated in all project activities, prepared an Action plan for local job matching events, and also a template design for information collected about the vacancies and next students, in collaboration with other project partners. \n-\tViA participated in all project activities, developed a roadmap of WP3 implementation with clearly assigned roles and responsibilities of each partner within the work package. In addition, ViA initiated a draft version of the Work Scheme implementation handbook.\n-\tTE Office participated in all project activities, integrated the Tour4Youth into their work, for example in EURES Satakunta meetings. In addition, TE Office contributed also by engaging the employers in the hotel, restaurant and tourism sectors to the project by utilising their registers to contact the employers. \n-\tVOCO withdrew from the project in November 2024. \n\nSAMK as the lead partner has led the project management and communication of the project. From the start of the project, the project partners were involved in the activities and they were guided in project management, communications, and financing. These included e.g. guidance to the project aims, target groups, reporting, managing the work packages and their schedules, staffing, project reporting, documentation, contracts, responsibilities, project guides and guidelines, manhour reporting, activities, outputs, and their reporting. \n\nThe project kick-off meeting was held in Pori, Finland on 28.-30.8.2023, to which all the project partners attended. The meeting included kicking off work packages 1 and 3. The schedule, activities, deliverables, and outputs were discussed. Continuing from that, the actions concerning delivering these items were highlighted. The discussion brought up some differences in the country-specific regulations and legislation, which are to be taken into account in the practices in the implementation processes.\n\nThe Steering Group was formed, and the first meeting was held online on 20.9.2023, and the second as an email meeting on 16.-19.1.2024, in which the SG approved the project modification.  \n\nFirst progress meeting was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 9.-11.1.2024. All active project partners attended to the meeting. Due to the change of the Estonian partner, the meeting location was changed from Tartu to Tallinn to ensure good progress and atmosphere, and SAMK organised the meeting. WP 2 was kicked off and implementing WP1 and WP3 progressed through practical and processual details. In addition, project management, communications, project modification, reporting, and output reporting were addressed.\n\nA project communication plan as part of the Detailed Management Plan was created. First, to ensure fluent communication and mutual understanding, regular project meetings were organised. The PM team representing the project managers of each partner started their monthly meetings on 2.10.2023 and continued on 6.11.2023, 4.12.2023, and 9.-11.1.2024 in the progress meeting. In addition, the monthly WP progress meetings started on 29.9.2023 and continued on 19.10.2023, 23.11.2023 and 25.1.2024. All partners attended these meetings. Second, communicative actions were taken by each project partner. Material production was initiated by the lead partner responsible of communications in collaboration with all partners. A project poster was produced. A media release of the project was sent in September. A shared project space in Google Drive was created. The CB webspace was updated. A project flyer in English and local languages was created and distributed by the partners to promote the program. Also, each partner inserted information about the program to their webpages. Service provider was selected to produce the communication materials. KPR created the joint Facebook-page for Tour4Youth to market the program. SAMK produced two research articles about the project for expert audiences, two newsletters for national and international networks, and several social media posts. Third, in addition to the regular meetings, email discussions among the project team have been continuous and regular. \n\nFollowing the communication activities in the project, collaboration with stakeholders, target groups, networks, educational institutions, and organisations were established. This was to raise awareness of the program. Collaboration with the SAMK teaching, traineeship, and international affairs personnel was established. Other stakeholders, like regional educational centers, international houses, organisations and companies in the tourism sector, employment offices both private and public, and NGOs were contacted. Collaboration among the stakeholders shall continue in advancing the project in meeting the aims and achieving the outputs.","Valmiera, Saldus, Pärnu, Pori, Tartu","LV, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},6]
["CB0100124","Northbound Scaleups","In partnering areas, 96-99,5% of startups are not scaling efficiently. They haven't adapted their product/service and business model for export market needs. They lack the know-how to set up the processes for scaling to foreign markets as well as resources to finance the growth. NBSCALE's objective is to tackle this challenge by providing tools, founder2founder peer support and tailor-made mentoring for startups in all industries with emphasis on partnering areas’ top-notch knowhow. The aim is to enhance the startups' conditions for scaling and successful international market entry.\n\nProject focus is in development of the best methodologies for internationalization readiness and in identifying and utilizing the success factors of the top scaleups by bringing the patterns to the most potential startups. The project also raises awareness of conditions and possible barriers in target markets.\n\nMain outputs in NBSCALE project are\n\n-45 scaled up companies \n-enhanced and transferable methodology for internationalization readiness process developed in cross-border cooperation\n\nThe project approach is built on a three-step NBSALE Program all steps integrated to each other. A) Growth Program for the startups that have scaleup potential and B) NBSCALE ScaleLab including Market Discovery Missions to target markets. Mentoring and f2f support will be integrated in all programs and Investment Readiness Process will support the internationalization readiness methodology.\n\nCross-border collaboration is critical for small regions for providing strong support for the scaling companies: sufficient amount of superstar scaleups for f2f support, combined best practices for developing a new cross-border methodology for internationalization readiness. The project novelty is founded on these critical cooperation activities. \n\nTotal budget is 1.120.655,08 €, of which 898.846,71 € is co-financing. The budget is devided as follows: Business Turku 394.107,70 €, Tehnopol 355.485,27€, Movexum 371.062,11€.","2023-03-01","2025-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1120655.08,"ERDF",896524.05,80,"A lot of questions and new CB Interreg rules have been handled and communicated. New project workers have been introduced to project work. The visual appearance, marketing materials and communication plan were planned and discussed in cooperation with all partners. The pre kick-off day as well as the planning meeting in Teams were organised during the preparation period so the actual project work was ready to start in the beginning of March. The application form for the 1st Growth Program batch was created, the program was marketed, application process was handled and the potential applicants were selected. A marketing meeting was organised by LP in 14.3. We planned and organized Tallinn and Turku event days (coaches, guest speakers, schedules, catering, trips and hotels). After Turku event days, we shifted our focus to mentoring and making sure the participants' readiness for Gävle event days in August.  \nThe sprints in Turku laid the foundation for Movexum to further build on the aspects of scaling. All 15 companies attended the sprints in Gävle where the focus was on preparing for international scale up and scaleup strategy formulation. The sprints in Gävle included tasks which were to be done during the sessions to help formulate the plan to internationalize. This also laid the foundation for the next homework which has to be submitted as a requirement to participate in the next phase.\nThroughout the whole period, regular weekly meetings with project partners and weekly meetings with internal NBSCALE teams, regular internal meetings with mentors and mentoring meetings with the participating companies were held. After each event day, the group has gathered participant feedback and has regularly discussed and adjusted the program.\nIn August, we held the Gävle days. Organizing of the Turku event in December was started and the first speakers and pro bonos have been booked. The first Project Group Meeting was organised in Turku in 16.5. for evaluating and developing the project work as well as going through budget and reporting issues as well as some topical project rules. The 1st Steering Group meeting was held in 22.5. Partners have been presenting the project in several meetings and events organised by Central Baltic Interreg or others, as well as in stakeholder meetings. By LP, communication with the CB contact person and advising the project group has been continuous, as well as some trainings for partners.\nThe IPC (Investor Pitch Clinic) was designed in June-August by the Lead Partner to serve all NBSCALE customers. It was presented for the first batch companies in Gävle in August. The purpose of the clinic is to prepare the business owners for an investor pitch and to understand what an investor wants to hear about a potential investment opportunity. Clinic is organised by Turku Science Park Ltd free of charge and is an optional part of the NBSCALE project. \n","Gävle, Tallinn, Turku","SE, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0500279","The Franchise Academy - a complex four-month business training program for NEET young people.","The common challenge is that the unemployment rate of young people is very high in both countries (Sweden and Estonia) and the consequences of that are life long if not addressed in a more effective way.\n\nWith \"The Franchise Academy\" complex entrepreneurship program, NEET youth from Sweden and Estonia will get the tools and training for entrepreneurship. \n\nThe project aims to combine Sweden's extensive experience in youth entrepreneurship with Estonia's expertise in popularizing entrepreneurship among young people. This partnership seeks to address youth unemployment, particularly among NEET youth, through a comprehensive entrepreneurship program.\n\n\"The Franchise Academy\" is a new approach where the needs and specific demands for NEET youth are taken in consideration when developing the complex training program.\n\nUpon program completion, \"The Franchise Academy\" will be accessible to the wider region. Both the lead and project partners will continue to use this concept bi-annually in the future to promote entrepreneurship.","2024-03-01","2025-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",207123,"ERDF",165698.4,80,"A group of 30 less competitive (under 25 yo NEET) young people from Sweden and Estonia have successfully completed a complex entrepreneurship program.","Stockholm, Paide","SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0300243","Gateway to Global Markets","SMEs that are interested and financially capable of exporting, are facing barriers when it comes to commencing their export endeavors. Barriers are such as cultural understanding, finding the right markets and target groups, understanding trade regulations and financial constraints, knowing market access, and facing logistical challenges. \n\nIn small countries, such as Finland and Estonia, the domestic market becomes quickly saturated, and although there is a desire to export, the skills and resources for internationalization are not necessarily there. Since, for example, Russian trade has stagnated, SMEs will have to go further afield to do export trade. More distant export markets require more knowledge, skills, and resources, which are recognized as obstacles for many SMEs. Long transport journeys also require partners and cooperation to optimize prices and efficiency. The digitalization needed for the export process is also a significant and vital factor in success, but it creates challenges for small companies. \n\nIn the local markets, which in this project are Japan and South Korea, partners are also needed to help with market penetration and to understand the local culture. The target markets have great potential for Finnish and Estonian products, but the rules for export operations and sales require local knowledge. Many companies don't have the resources to undertake these activities either, but through the project, we can see that they can be taken up and implemented. In order for SMEs to be able to overcome export barriers, networks, and cooperation are needed both in the home country and in the target countries. Also cooperation, and combining forces and skills, will lower the costs and workload.\n\nCross-border e-commerce can be used as the first step to entering the market and is less known as export entry. In the project, the export operations will be built together with the networks created around e-commerce together with SMEs. The objective of this project is to guide SMEs to start export sales through e-commerce to Japan and South Korea and to have the right contacts and partners in their home and target countries. The project result is to achieve continuous exports with growing volumes. The participating SMEs have all the needed knowledge, processes, digital acquirements, partners, and networks to implement continuous export that is economically viable.","2024-05-01","2027-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",816400.3,"ERDF",653120.23,80,"The primary objective of this work package is to support and lay the groundwork for the commencement of SME export activities to the Japanese and South Korean markets by leveraging cross-border e-commerce. This objective is achieved through the following activities:\n\n1.1 Network Building and Recruiting SMEs \n1.2 Cross-cultural Training for SMEs and International Engagement \n1.3 Market Research for Chosen Sectors\n1.4 Product market fit and localization of the products \n1.5 Marketing plan and sales distribution strategy\n1.6 Sales platforms and sales activities\n\nThrough these activities, the work package works toward the overarching objective of enabling SMEs to overcome export barriers and successfully commence their export endeavors to the Japanese and South Korean markets via cross-border e-commerce. \n\nLP coordinates WP 1, and executes activities with both PPs. External expertise is purchased to support that objective is achieved.\n\n\n\nThe primary objective of this work package is the physical delivery of the goods sold to Japan and South Korea and the development and digitalization of the order-delivery process. This objective is achieved through the following activities:\n\n2.1 Logistics strategy and deliveries to customers\n2.2 Modeling and auditing order-delivery processes\n2.3 Development and Digitalization of Order-Delivery Processes\n2.4 Sustainable Supply Chain & Risk Management\n2.5 Sales performance tracking and customer feedback\n2.6 Final evaluation, reporting, and continuity  \n\nStreamlining and simplifying order-delivery processes and help companies to digitalize them and utilize & adapt new technologies in order to become more competitive, efficient, sustainable, and able to scale up export sales.\n\nPP (PROLOG) coordinates WP 2, and executes activities with PP (LIMOWA) and LP. External expertise is purchased to support that objective is achieved.","Kouvola, Tallinn, Hyvinkää","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0300168","Three countries, two markets, one goal – a joint export project to the UK and US healthcare markets","The Central Baltic region is home to strong life science clusters that are at a mature level to start export activities. There are challenges and opportunities that these companies face and that the project wants to address and use. \n\nThe project focuses on life science companies (Medtech, HealthTech, Pharma and Biotech subsectors), which are characterized by long and complex processes for market access and entry. In order to enter a market, products have to be approved through a complex regulatory process, and a strategy for reimbursement of the solution in the healthcare system has to be developed. Most companies need support in these processes. \n\nA very recent health crisis around the world, COVID-19, has caused both serious problems and new possibilities for the sector. Although the pandemic destructed supply chains around the world causing eg price increases and delays in manufacturing, the demand for health products has risen. It means there is a huge disparity between what medical products and device manufacturers can produce and what the market actually needs. This means a great opportunity for target companies to expand their client base and find new markets.\n\nAnother external disruption was the UK leaving the EU. The UK is a huge market that undergoes regulatory changes after Brexit. That means also new possibilities for EU companies.\n \nThe project aims at supporting Medtech, HealthTech, Pharma and Biotech companies in SE, FI, and EE to expand their markets to the UK and East Coast USA (two states, most likely Massachusetts and North Carolina). For that, structured support will be developed and provided to the target companies:\n\n - creating the value proposition for participating companies; \n - creating the relevant business support materials for target markets; \n - inviting target companies to information events;\n - selection of the potential companies for all three markets;\n - finding and (re)creating relations with contact persons in the target markets (local experts); \n - implementing market-specific seminars for the UK and two US states;\n - identifying the needed thematic trainings for the participating companies; \n - implementing focused thematic training seminars (eg regulatory framework of the target markets, collaboration for longer value chain, IP protection, market access strategies, evaluation and validation systems in the US and UK, sales pitch, marketing); \n - supporting companies in regulatory framework procedures; \n - implementing collaboration seminars or other ways of collaboration between the participating companies from all three countries; \n - organizing export missions to target markets, with the assistance of local experts; \n - planning and organising business tours, matchmaking events, and other events in target markets;\n - supporting companies after the export mission to achieve the sales contract\n - identifying potential sales leads for SMEs\n\nAs a result, the project supports 35-36 companies by training and coaching activities, and expects at least 15 companies to achieve sales in target markets. The project aims to support a lot more companies to go through the regulatory process and lay a good basis for the contracts and sales in the markets, hence it is expected that a lot higher number of companies will achieve sales once the time- and effort-demanding regulatory process has been successfully passed with the support of the project.","2024-05-01","2027-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1798293.3,"ERDF",1438634.62,80,"35 CB companies have received support to start with export activities toward the UK and US markets. ","Stockholm, Turku, Tallinn","SE, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0300176","Growth for FINSWE Film and TV Companies","The common challenge:\nAV sector, especially the Film and TV Industry in Finland and Sweden, lacks local, regional and national production resources (staff, teams, HOD (head of departments), skills, equipment, facilities, and international networks) to meet the existing demand for handling incoming big international productions and attracting more big productions. See Finnish report: https://www.kasvusopimus.fi/artikkelit/top-5-kasvun-haastetta-kotimaiselle-av-alalle\nAlso, in Sweden, the film and television industry has more projects than can be staffed. Jobs are increasing even further as of last year -22, when the Swedish government introduced production incentives for film production. This was done in order to strengthen economic attractiveness for both domestic and international projects and thus increase production volumes, creating an even greater demand for upskilling and, in an organized fashion, being able to monitor the existing workforce and developing methods to collaborate with Finland around joint methods for an inventory of sectorial skills. See Swedish report: https://nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/news/stories/sweden-dishes-out-sek100-million-in-first-round-of-audiovisual-production-rebates. There are big international AV productions in companies and development organizations’ waitlists, but companies cannot do as much as would be possible. These problems must be solved to make the growth of companies possible. Also, during challenging times in the AV industry, cross-border collaboration between companies will help keep companies on the growth track.\n\nThe overall objective and the expected change:\n10 AV-sector growth companies from Finland, 10 from Sweden, 2 from Estonia and 2 from Latvia have scaled-up growth. The project also aims to collaborate with 15 other AV- and creative sector companies, which are an essential part of the AV sector ecosystem, including some relevant enterprises from both countries. To support scaling-up and making a change, we have 3 work packages: Scaling-up Growth of Companies by 1) Workshops, Matchmaking and Mentoring by 2) Implementing New Growth Tools for Cross-Border Productions, and 3) by a Joint Cross-Border AV Production Model and a Pilot Production. These are all linked together and will be run in parallel.\n\nThe approach and why a cross-border approach is needed:\nCreating cross-border solutions is needed to scale-up growth by opening possibilities for more regular and bigger production gigs in large AV productions. This includes sharing growth companies' and partners' resources and knowledge within the project network. All companies don’t have a production peak simultaneously; thus, relevant production resources should always be available in the network. To reach the scale-up target, we must work on activities in cross-border collaboration. This is structured in 3 work packages, which all aim to support scaling-up the growth. Actions will benefit AV production startups and growth companies, the AV industry ecosystem in the Central Baltic region in general, and all involved in the production pipeline directly or indirectly in Finland and Sweden. \n\nThe main outputs and those who will benefit:\n\n1.1 Executed AV Growth programme to scale-up AV companies' growth through cross-border cooperation of 3 partners from Finland and Sweden and collaboration with an AV sector organization from Estonia.\nThe main results include scaling-up growth of the companies (=attracted investment, developed new business model, expanded team, added revenue, etc.) by 1) enhancing the availability of relevant production resources, 2) developing production methods, business models and skills, 3) being able to offer services for bigger clients and markets and increasing the number of profitable productions. \n\n2.1 Implemented New Growth Tools for Cross-Border Productions to support scaling-up.\nA growth tool, the Crew Call for Growth Companies (CCGC) service platform, is developed and documented. CCGC opens doors for cross-border AV Productions and can be applied and utilised by AV companies and educational institutions. The platform includes tools for the recognition of AV sector companies and their staff's skill sets and for sharing production resources to scale-up growth.\n\n3.1 Developed a joint cross-border AV production model and executed a pilot production.\nThe new cross-border production model and pilot AV production will help to transfer the results of the scaling-up actions and methods to target groups. The model can be utilized in other cross-sectoral AV productions as well, but piloting is done to transfer scaling-up methods and results to AV sector companies and other stakeholders in the Central Baltic region to help them scale-up their growth.\n\nWhat is original:\nA combination of a cross-border pool of growth companies, matchmaking with investors and buyers, mentoring, a new cross-border AV production model and use of digital competence padges for skills standardization and other actions.","2024-05-01","2027-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",987802,"ERDF",790241.6,80,"Supported AV companies have scaled up growth. \n\nWho needs project output and which territory: \nAV sector growth companies in Finland, Sweden and generally in the Central Baltic region.\n\nMeasures, the change we are aiming for: companies have e.g. attracted investment, developed new business models, expanded teams, and added revenue.\n\nCriteria and method for the selection of companies: TAMK will create an online application form to gather information from potential AV sector companies. Questions will include the age of the company, company ID, main expertise in the AV sector, motivation for growth and getting to the next level, how many workers you have, and main motivation to join the growth project. Based on these questions, we will make the assessment matrix and choose the best candidates from each country. \nTo develop and pilot new growth tools for cross-border productions to scale up the growth of Finnish and Swedish AV sector start-up companies.\n\nWho needs project output: AV sector growth companies in Finland, Sweden and generally in the Central Baltic region. Especially companies needing more partners and resources, including recognized skill sets.\n\nMeasures, the change we are aiming for: the number of AV sector growth companies which have used the CCGC service and have been able to boost their growth by using the platform's validation of skill sets and sharing resource needs and offerings. \nThe aim is to develop a new cross-border production model and execute a pilot AV production, which also helps to transfer the results of the scaling-up actions and methods for target groups in the Central Baltic area. \n\nAV sector in Finland, Sweden and generally in the Central Baltic region needs efficient and sustainable ways for cross-border productions to reach wider markets and boost growth.\n\nThe model can be utilized in other cross-sectoral AV productions as well, but piloting is done to transfer scaling-up methods and results to AV sector companies and other stakeholders in the Central Baltic region.\n\nThe change we are aiming for is to develop an efficient, sustainable cross-border production model and pilot it to transfer the AV Growth project's scaling-up methods and results.\n","Tampere, Stockholm","FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0300222","Creative Digital Growth BOOSTER","Finland, Sweden, and Estonia are the leading countries in Europe applying new technologies in many business fields. The Creative Digital Growth Booster project will offer an accelerator program for companies that are looking for growth and scaling up their businesses in new business and industry fields. We are looking for tech companies that are focusing on utilizing new digital technologies in more traditional industries to participate in our project. It needs more evidence from the companies to convince their potential to investors to join in or find more customers or even new market areas for scaling up their business. Joining forces with three partner countries and their high competence in new technologies and developing business models for them, will offer a great basis for the CDG Booster program in the Central Baltic area. \n\nDue the fact that these companies developing and utilizing new technologies (VR, AR, XR, metaverse, game technology-based applications, simulations, etc.) for more traditional industry fields are relatively small in size, means that they need a collaboration and expert support for reaching new markets and customers or even investors for scaling up. The biggest challenge in this scene is the gap between rapidly developing technologies and device development and finally making out of them user-friendly, easy-to-use merchandised products and services for the markets. There is a high potential for making many more new big market entries and scale-ups by these tech companies in Sweden, Estonia, and Finland in entering to the traditional business fields and making success stories there. In each participating country, there is a lack of ecosystems and a wider business network for companies applying new technologies to more traditional business sectors, like construction, architecture, education, training, film and music, movies, health sector, nursing, etc.\n\nWide knowledge from different technologies and business fields from three partner countries is essential for scaling up these businesses. In the CB region, collaboration and expertise sharing are key to creating stronger companies and business clusters capable of reaching new markets and scaling up their business. \n\nOur objective is to build a CDG Booster accelerator program for smaller companies developing and utilizing new technologies. This program creates a strong cross-border ecosystem supporting the companies in developing their technologies, products, and services to be more user-friendly, developing the business models to fit in better to new customer segments by making market analysis and supporting the companies in management level as well. \n\nThe main output of the project will be 15-20 scaled-up companies. This will be implemented in 2 work packages:\n\nWP1: Creation of the CDG Booster accelerator platform and reaching out to the first set of participants. New SMEs can join the program later on during the first 24 months of the project. \nWP2: Scale and grow process. Includes a booster program with workshops, mentoring, individual development paths, an advisory program, and a peer-to-peer support program for CEOs and management teams. Cross-border ecosystem building by recruiting the leader companies to the ecosystem and creating a common platform for the ecosystem to keep the collaboration active after the project ends. \n\n\nThe estimated budget of the project is 1 715 500 €. \n\nXAMK, 515 500 €\nLAB, 350 000,00€\nDSB, 450 000,00€ \nTSP, 400 000,00€","2024-05-01","2027-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","015 Digitising SMEs or large enterprises (including e-Commerce, e-Business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria","N",1695151.8,"ERDF",1356121.44,80,"50 SMEs from all the participating countries have participated in the CDG Booster Platform during the project. \n50 companies (25 from round 1 and 25 from round 2) have participated in the Booster Program during the project duration.  ","Kotka, Lahti, Stockholm, Tartu","FI, SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0300225","Scaleup and Innovation Program for Scaling up Sustainable Companies","The aim of Zebra ScaleUp project is to improve the lives of the inhabitants in the Central Baltic region (CBR) and bring cohesion and development to cross-border regions in the CB area by developing more successful Zebra scaleup companies. This has an impact on developing sustainable actions in economical, environmental and social levels. This project addresses the needs of mission-driven companies sometimes known as ‘Zebra Startups’ aiming to scale up their business. Zebra Startups are often tech-driven companies addressing pressing sustainaiblity challenges (e.g. circular economy) utilizing AI or deep tech solutions (e.g green tech, health tech), but they can also be found in other fields. Unlike Unicorns, Zebras focus on both profits and sustainability. As sustainability and profitability do not always reconcile, mission-driven companies often face tough decisions. While sustainable companies are becoming increasingly important as investment targets, many investors are concerned with quick financial returns. Despite challenges, we have already witnessed success stories of mission-driven scaleups. Public policies (e.g. promotion of SDGs) and grass-root events already support mission-driven companies. The challenge is the lack of and need for structured ways to help prominent companies reach the next level in their journey towards becoming the next success story from CBR. This project provides a tailored program for new companies with growth ambition. The project provides the companies with tailored help, peer-to-peer learning, and engages the companies with ecosystems. The guiding thought is quality over quantity. The project provides help and hands-on support from 3 thematical areas: RDI (e.g. algorithm development, deep tech), Business Design (e.g. attracting talent, growth marketing, sales) and Finance & Funding (e.g., networking with VCs, finding suitable investors). Central Baltic area project - collaboration needed due to different areas of expertise. \n\nProject results: \n\n\n1.\tECOSYSTEM EVENT AND KICK-OFF (2x50 participants abt. 40 companies): The project enhances possibilities towards the ecosystems by arranging 2 ecosystem engagement events for mission driven scaleups (raising awareness on scaleup opportunities) and 3 ecosystem engagement events focusing on the thematical areas and scaleup objectives. As ecosystem we refer to the wider stakeholder environments consisting of financing institutions, export businesses, NGO’s and others supporting organizations. The project starts with a kickoff + ecosystem event aiming to raise awareness for scaleup opportunities for companies who are in transition stage and aim to grow and to deepen their mission. The event consists of 3 thematic workshops on \n\n1. RDI, \n\n2. Business Design, \n\n3. Finance and Funding to find out the best opportunity for growth. The companies will fill out an application to continue to the next phase. Best applicants (max 15 companies) will be selected to continue to bootcamps.\n\n\n2.\tBOOTCAMPS LINKED TO 6 SCALE-UP OBJECTIVES (2 x at least 24 participants abt 20 companies):At least 15 supported companies proceed to a bootcamp for goal-oriented support track aiming to raise awareness for scaleup opportunities linked to 6 scaleup objectives. ScaleUp objectives/measurements: \n\n1. raise their investments, \n\n2. establish presence outside the homemarket, \n\n3. develop a new product/service, \n\n4. expand the key team, \n\n5. develop business models, \n\n6. company being merged/acquired/implemented in the Initial Public Offering (IPO).For one-on-one training camps the companies need to present their goal linked to the 6 scaleup objectives. Thanks to the funnel method the project benefits at least 15 companies. All companies present their mission tracks to mentor panel, where at least 6 companies with most promising growth missions are hand-picked to proceed into one-on-one training camps.\n\n\n3.\tONE-ON-ONE TRAINING CAMPS(2x12 participants at least 10 companies, sessions 2-4) One-on-one training camps include coaching/mentoring.Training camps allow the companies to use experts and RDI capacities of the universities to release their full growth potential.\n\n\n4.\tDEMODAY (company presentations at least 12 participants/abt. 10 companies; at least 3 companies become scaleups)\n\n\n5.\tFINAL ECOSYSTEM EVENT (2x50 participants abt. 40 companies) ecosystem event aiming to raise awareness for scaleup opportunities for companies who are in transition stage presenting 7 success stories and focusing on ways to scaleup (3 themes and 6 objectives).\n\n\n6.\tAT LEAST 7 NEW SCALEUP COMPANIES: Through these actions project expects to launch 7 new scaleup companies aiming to become success stories by enabling to raise their investments, establish presence outside the home market, develop a new product/service, expanding the key team, developing business models or a company being merged/acquired/implemented IPO.\n\n\nProject budget: In total 932 962 EUR; per partner HHUAS 599 756 EUR and Tehnopol 333 206 EUR.","2024-04-01","2027-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","030 Research and innovation processes, technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, focusing on circular economy","N",932962.2,"ERDF",746369.76,80,"The objective of this project is to raise the awareness of scaleup opportunities and develop skills to scaleup new Zebras by focusing on  thematic areas:RDI,Business development&Finance (ecosystem+kickoff event). After this we will focus further to 6 measurables (Bootcamp events, one-on-one camps, demoday) which measure weather the new SME Zebra company has been able to scaleup (1.raise investments, 2.establish presence outside homemarket, 3.develop new product/service, 4.expand  key team, 5.develop business models 6.company merged/acquired/implemented in IPO). The final objective is that 7 new Zebra companies have scaled up (measured this objective by 6 above measurements). We conclude the project with a final event that aims to raise awareness for scaleup opportunities for companies who are in transition stage and aim to grow and to deepen their mission by presenting 7 success stories and focusing on ways to scaleup (3 themes and 6 objectives).","Tallinn, Helsinki","EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","Eutrophication is the primary concern for the Baltic Sea, largely due to past and current nutrient run-off from land, highlighting the intertwined health of both ecosystems. Addressing this issue at its source, by improving the condition of inland waters as emphasized by the EU's Water Framework Directive, is vital for achieving the good environmental status set out by EU legislation and the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. Currently, none of the basin countries are achieving their targets. While there's a recognized knowledge and experience gap regarding the optimization of nutrient retention measures in agricultural and forested areas, there's also a significant implementation gap. Even when knowledge exists, actions often fall short of what's required to achieve desired outcomes. As a result, the threat from nutrient loading to ecosystem services provided by the Baltic Sea and the economic sectors (tourism, fisheries and others) and cultural values relying on them, continues to increase.\n\nTo address this, WWF Sweden, Nyköping’s River Conservation Association, Pasaules Dabas Fond, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies and Estonian Fund for Nature have jointly designed the Baltic Catchment Officer Project (BaltCOP). The project aims to contribute to Interreg Central Baltic’s overall objective PO4: Improved Coastal and Marine Environment, through improving 6 runoff/load sources in 3 catchment areas (agricultural forest load sources) in Estonia, Latvia and Sweden. Reduced nutrient loading will be achieved by recreating and restoring wetlands and other water retention measures. Furthermore, the effectiveness of these enhanced load sources will be optimized through the deployment of an innovative catchment approach. This approach, which involves catchment area coordinators armed with a comprehensive toolbox, not only emphasizes a holistic perspective but also fosters better implementation, ensuring that actionable strategies translate into tangible results on the ground.\n\nThe partners have identified the catchment coordination approach as a useful way to scale up efforts to improve load sources. Looking back at eutrophication reduction measures in the Baltic Sea region, catchment area coordination is a new and innovative way of working. It has been applied in Denmark and Sweden but it is not yet fully established in the region, and there is good potential to improve and expand the approach to other Baltic Sea countries. However, it is essential to tailor the approach to each country's context. There is an opportunity to collect existing lessons, co-create different types of models and share knowledge cross-border to scale up the approach and embed it as part of national and local water management. This approach has the potential to lead to more effective and sustainable implementation of existing legislation, but also to support work with biodiversity targets, the upcoming restoration law actions as well as climate adaptation measures – connecting the local know-how with achievement of national goals.\n\nCross-border collaboration and peer support between experts can inject new momentum into this challenging topic. It can give new perspectives on the issues in a specific national or local context. Countering eutrophication is a long-term effort where local dedication is crucial to success. Such dedication, especially from landowners, is assumed to become reinforced through exchange with peers from neighbouring countries, working on the same issue and with an interest to develop similar methods.\n\nThe project will produce two types of outputs. First, increased capacity in applying catchment coordination and constructing wetlands and other water retention measures, primarily among future experts, public officials, farmers’ unions and landowners who will be given the opportunity to participate in cross-border, workshops, field visits and policy events. Second, jointly implemented pilot actions in Estonia, Latvia and Sweden, that according to the context of each country, will advance the possibilities of embedding the role of catchment officers in national water and environmental management plans. This will benefit several stakeholder groups. Local, regional and national public authorities and sectoral agencies will gain capacity and recommendations for how to better fulfil HELCOM commitments and EU and other legislation. Farmers, running SME’s and owning agricultural land and forests, will gain additional support when it comes to planning for and investing in wetlands and other measures. The general public will gain greater awareness of possibilities to counter eutrophication, not to mention a more sustainable local environment. Interest groups (in particular environmental NGOs) and academic institutions are important drivers of change, who will advance their strategic objectives through jointly implementing BaltCOP.","2024-06-01","2027-05-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",2336087.56,"ERDF",1868870.03,80,"The main objective is to increase awareness and foster acceptance among policy makers, practitioners and landowners of the catchment officer approach both locally and nationally in Estonia, Latvia and Sweden and a recognition of this approach in the wider Baltic Sea region. \n\nThrough a detailed communications strategy, featuring tailored content like videos, infographics, and targeted events, this project seeks to showcase the importance of the catchment officer approach. By initiating cross-border policy dialogues and providing evidence-based policy recommendations, the goal is to inform and guide policy directions while promoting the long-term adoption of the catchment approach through the development of a roadmap.\nWe aim to achieve enhanced cross-border learning, collaboration, and network-building among project partners and selected stakeholders, leading to the development of long-term strategies and best practice guidelines for the catchment approach. \n\nThis will pave the way for the widespread adoption of the catchment approach, ensuring its sustainability and effectiveness through comprehensive monitoring and evaluation. This objective is specific to the project partners involved and the territories covered within the project. The change we are aiming for is a substantial improvement in knowledge and capacity and the establishment of best practices for the catchment approach and nutrient reduction monitoring. \n\nAdditionally, we will offer the course on catchment approach is open to anyone interested in learning this approach, thereby extending the impact beyond project countries and territories while enhancing capacity development.\nThe pilot activities have a dual objective: \n> firstly, to achieve nutrient reduction from six load sources; and \n> secondly, to serve as a source of knowledge and insight that will inform and enhance all other project activities. This comprehensive approach aims to not only improve nutrient retention and biodiversity in selected areas across Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden but also to create replicable models for sustainable water management practices and the effective implementation of restoration activities.","Riga, Jelgava, Tartu, Nyköping, Solna","LV, EE, SE",null,"Sverige (SE), Katrineholm, N 6539853, E 564321,  (SWEREF 99 TM)\nSverige, Tystberga, (WEREF 99 TM, N 6530205, E 627318) Vreta, 2, 61199\nEstonia, Kelu (Lääneranna), location: 58.758963413583814, 23.88136041753634, , \nEesti (EE), Penijõe (Lääneranna), location: 58.71232475459615, 23.81930483012413\nEesti (EE), Soovälja (Lääneranna), location: 58.64267377274446, 23.828746205623066\nLatvija (LV), Zalenieki (farm \"Mežacīruļi\"), 56°34'22\"N, 23°29'46\"E\n",null,null,null,5]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","The Baltic Sea and surrounding water bodies are exposed to increased pollution from rural and urban catchment areas. Whereas point pollution sources are often easy to identify and address, diffuse pollution is less obvious and therefore also harder to identify and mitigate. \n\nWe propose a practical and resource wise Watershed Safety Plan (WSSP) operational model that will enable municipalities, water utilities and similar actors to reduce the amount of diffuse pollution which typically contain harmful nutrient inflows, hazardous substances, and pathogens from reaching the Baltic Sea. WSSP has recently been piloted in Finland. \n\nTo develop a generally applicable model, project pilot areas include densely built areas, sparsely populated agricultural and forested areas. WSSP is piloted in close cooperation with its end users. Each pilot catchment area is surveyed in detail with modern technologies such as GIS tools, and field methods to identify risk areas to target and implement sustainable water protection activities to reduce diffuse pollution resource-wisely and effectively. WSSP will include current applications, but also new dynamic simulation models, that will enable decision makers to compare different scenarios and interventions. \n\nThis is the first time when such an applicable catchment area-based operating model is adapted at this scale for municipalities and water utilities and similar actors in the Central Baltic area. Diffuse pollution is a joint challenge facing the Baltic region and it can only be solved by acting together. Acting separately would be the waste of limited resources. By improving water quality in the Central Baltic area, WSSP will also improve the well-being of the inhabitants, especially in pilot areas. \n\nThe total budget of the project is 2.600.555,42 EUR, and it is shared as follows; HAMK 451.819,00 EUR, UH 398.443,47 EUR, LUVY 298.208,89 EUR, KTH 349.685,84 EUR, CAB 271.970,62 EUR, EULS 303.856,40 EUR, VV 104.869,20 EUR, RTU 377.618,00 EUR, and LW 44.084,00 EUR.","2024-05-01","2027-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",2600555.42,"ERDF",2080444.32,80,"The objective of work package 1 (WP1) is to pilot the risk assessment stage of the WSSP in collaboration with at least 12 relevant target groups comprising of municipalities and water utilities. This includes the development and piloting of data collection methods and procedures and specification of applicable risk criteria, which are required for the creation of the risk maps for pilot areas.  This research will be used to develop the WSSP which will provide an actionable framework for municipalities and water utilities to implement a holistic surface water management in the different catchment areas in the future.   \nThe objective of the work package 2 is to pilot the field stage of the WSSP operational model and improve in total 6 load sources by designing and implementing water protection measures based on the WSSP risk assessment. Testing and monitoring of the water protection measures are also key elements of this stage. Municipalities and water utilities will need the WSSP operational model in the future to manage surface waters in a sustainable and resource-wise way. Therefore, the field stage of the WSSP is piloted in this work package, so that they have at their disposal a working and tested model.\nThe overall objective of the WP3 is to disseminate the WSSP operational model  and ensure that municipalities and water utilities will implement and use it now and in the future to manage surface waters in a sustainable and resource-wise way. This objective would result in a significant reduction in pollution load to the Baltic Sea. The project aims to empower 24 municipalities and/or water utilities to implement the WSSP model in the Central Baltic area. ","Riga, Liepaja, Stockholm, Valga, Tartu, Linköping, Lohja, Lammi, 13100","LV, SE, EE, FI",null,"Eesti (EE), Valga\nSverige (SE), Stockholm, 13056, Utö\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Kirkkonummi, 02480\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Kirkkonummi, 02480\nLatvija (LV), Liepaja, Libiesu, 33, LV3401\nSuomi/Finland (FI)\nSverige (SE), Norrköping\n",null,null,null,9]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","To reduce CO2 emissions from urban transport, public planning authorities need knowledge about effective and feasible ways of promoting bike travel over car travel. The objective of Cycle4Climate (C4C) is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of physical and social behavioural interventions aimed at making people switch from car travel to bike travel in four transport areas in four cities (Espoo, Finland; Gävle, Sweden; Pärnu, Estonia; Riga, Latvia).\n\nThe approach of C4C is comprised of three main components that each constitute a work package: WP1) integrated measurements and analysis of traffic and travel to estimate CO2 emissions over time in the transport areas, WP2) behavioural interventions for promoting biking in the transport areas, and WP3) face-to-face events for coordinating measurements and interventions, generalising insights, and creating an evidence-backed intervention toolbox. WP3 encapsulates the cross-border element of the project that is crucial for reaching the desired results. Testing and evaluating many potentially effective and feasible behavioural interventions is beyond the scope of any individual city. Hence, simultaneous pilot interventions within a wider cross-border cooperation project can accelerate knowledge co-creation and uptake of efficient tools in planning practice. In addition, the activities in WP1 and WP2 will benefit from cross-border coordination in the initial phase of the project when interventions and measurement methodologies are jointly prepared.\n\nThe project will result in three outputs: 1) estimations of CO2 emissions from traffic and travel over time in the transport areas, 2) implementation of behavioural interventions in transport areas, and 3) cross-border knowledge co-creation, synthesised in the form of an intervention toolbox.\n\nThese outputs will benefit several stakeholder groups. First, partner city officials, policymakers, and decision-makers all seek to reduce CO2 emissions from traffic by increasing the share of bicycles in their cities. The project will provide them with in-depth knowledge about effective and feasible tools for achieving this. Second, adult car users (our target group) will directly benefit from the interventions, as the interventions will be designed using evidence-backed tools to promote cycling. This group will be supported in their efforts to change their travel behaviour in a more sustainable and healthy direction. Third, the academic community will benefit as C4C will provide information about how physical interventions and social interventions interact in pilot actions implemented by public planning authorities and the feasibility of scaling up such pilot actions from a public planning perspective. Fourth, companies active in the transport areas will benefit by being directly involved in interventions in some of the cities. They will receive support for implementation of their corporate responsibility and sustainability action plans and strategies through C4C activities.\n\nC4C fills an important gap by focusing in a structured and systematic way on physical and social behavioural interventions in combination. Furthermore, the attention paid to integrated measurements of traffic volumes and individuals’ travel patterns allow for a thorough evaluation of the effect of interventions. The interventions are implemented over a generous period (2 years), to allow new behavioural patterns to emerge. All these aspects contribute to the validity of the intervention toolbox. The toolbox format is chosen since it can achieve the balance needed between general evidence-backed interventions and flexibility to adapt to contextual factors that differ between cities, thereby accelerating uptake in planning practice.","2024-06-01","2027-11-30","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.8. Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility, as part of transition to a net zero carbon economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","085 Digitalisation of transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: urban transport","N",2435183.68,"ERDF",1948146.92,80,"To evaluate bike traffic and travel over time in four transport areas and associated changes in CO2 intensity.\nTo implement and evaluate the feasibility of bike-promoting interventions in four transport areas.\nTo co-create and share knowledge across borders about bike-promoting interventions and their effectiveness and feasibility.","Riga, Gävle, ESPOON KAUPUNKI, Pärnu, Tartu, Helsinki","LV, SE, FI, EE",null,"Suomi/Finland (FI), Espoo\nSverige (SE), Gävle\nEesti (EE), Pärnu\nLatvija (LV), Riga\nSverige (SE), Gävle\nEesti (EE), Pärnu\nLatvija (LV), Riga\n",null,null,null,8]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","The island ferry transport of passengers and light vehicles is a relatively small sector, compared to other transport nodes. Ferry connections between mainland and islands of Central Baltic (CB) form an important part of the intermodal transport chains linking islands to urban centres, where usually no other options are available for the users of those services. The ferry ports constitute essential intermodal nodes in these transport chains.\n \nClimate actions are at the core of the EU Green Deal. These policy objectives have been passed on to national policies. These policies aim at remarkable reductions of GHG emissions in the field of transport. The island ferry companies need to comply with these policies. An individual ferry operator faces the challenge to follow new CO2 reduction technologies for making decisions in procuring and operating the best new technology. The low-carbon fuels and electrification of transport are developing fast. The options to use these fuels in ferry operation need more attention. The organizational improvements of the whole ferry transport system (e.g. routing, scheduling, enhanced digitalisation) can provide also potential to decrease CO2 emissions. These elements are explored jointly in co-operation to provide value-added and cost-efficiency to each partner. Sharing knowledge and best practices is in the heart of REISFER project.\n\nReducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic (REISFER) project aims to improve the transport area and intermodal nodes by reducing the CO2 emissions 10-20% of the island ferry traffic in Estonia, Finland, Åland and Sweden. \n\nThe main outputs are the decreased CO2 emissions in ferry transport areas and nodes realised by technical and operative changes in ferry transport. The beneficiaries are all users of this public service. This group consists of permanent inhabitants of the islands, leisure time house owners, tourists and other visitors. In addition, different private enterprises that use the service will benefit.\nREISFER aims at reducing fossil energy consumption leading to reduced GHG emissions. This is conducted in two main complementary entities:\n\n1.\tCO2 reduction possibilities and perceptions towards low-emission shipping in the CB ferry traffic\nWith relatively old fleets in inter-island ferry transport in EE, FI, SE and AX, there are significant possibilities to reduce the overall emissions in each country and region. This is essential as the vessels operate in particularly vulnerable archipelago habitats. Although, the operational conditions are complex, and despite some similarities, these vary between the countries. It is important to understand the overall setting, juridical, market-related, institutional, societal and personal factors to reduce CO2 emissions more efficiently. Guidelines for emission reduction will be presented. Extensive communication outside the consortium will be ensured through (social)media and the three REISFER conferences. \n\n2.\tPiloting CO2 emission abatement methods and technology to ferries are grouped as\n-\telectrification of ferries, including batteries, charging infra on vessels and shoreside\n-\ttechnologies to reduce fuel consumption, including improved heating and cooling, blasting and painting, LED lighting and propellers;\n-\toperational methods such as energy management systems are installed, ways to optimise ferry traffic system are screened (alternative routng, eco-driving).\nAll installed technologies have trial runs and impact on fuel consumption is monitored, data is collected and analysed. Results of pilots are summarised, and guidelines produced for replicability.\n\nThe competence of ferry company staff is increased by training, joint seminars, study visits and produced learning materials in using new methods for emission reduction.\n\nAt the beginning of the project, the baseline for CO2 emissions is studied in detail. After procurements and installations, the pilots are producing data that is analysed and the decreased CO2 emissions are verified. The methodology is based on the data derived from the fuel consumption.\n\nAdditional factors explaining the fuel consumption are weather conditions, schedule (speed), route etc. Also, different crews can explain varying consumption levels (to be ameliorated with eco-driving education). These issues need to be incorporated into the methodology to optimise energy consumption for less emissions. An equally important dimension in decreasing CO2 emissions is to find carbon-free substitutes (or less carbon) for fossil fuels and analyse their feasibility and Impact on decreased emissions.\n\nREISFER is the first common development project of island ferry segment. Increasing know-how together is seen crucial. The work will be conducted in international teams to guarantee the optimal sharing of information, knowledge and practices across the partnership. The intermediate and final results are shared in common meetings and seminars, and eventually in public reports.","2024-04-01","2027-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.8. Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility, as part of transition to a net zero carbon economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","085 Digitalisation of transport when dedicated in part to greenhouse gas emissions reduction: urban transport","N",3760968.75,"ERDF",3008774.99,80,"The main objective of WP1 is to form a common understanding on the operating environment and organisation of CB ferry transportation along with the status of CO2 emissions in the region. Analyses and surveys among different target groups provide insight to the various juridical, market-related, institutional, societal, and personal factors that affect the pace and direction of the transition towards lower CO2 levels.  \nThe specific objective of WP2 is to gain knowledge of the effectiveness of different energy consumption technologies and methods to reduce CO2 emissions in inter-island ferry transportation in the Central Baltic region.  ","Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn, Tallinn, Turku, Kihnu vald, Pärnumaa","FI, SE, EE",null,"Sverige (SE), Stockholm, Ferkens gränd, 3, 11130\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Turku, Lemminkäisenkatu, 59, 20520\nSverige (SE), Stockholm, Ferkens gränd, 3, 11130\nSverige (SE), Stockholm, Ferkens gränd, 3, 11130\nEesti (EE), Tallinn, Lume, 9, 10416\nEesti (EE), Tallinn, Lume, 9, 10416\nEesti (EE), Tallinn, Lume, 9, 10416\nFinland, Mariehamn, Strandgatan, 37, AX-22111\nSuomi/Finland (FI), Helsinki, Hämeentie, 86A, 00550\n",null,null,null,9]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","People 50+ and youth living in remote rural areas and archipelago across the Central Baltic face often challenges such as low levels of key skills, knowledge and understanding of business enterprise, which while working in fragile business environments means that many operators are at risk of unemployment. In addition, many such micro and small enterprises have poor resilience due to a lack of business sustainability skills, and therefore market shocks such as the recent COVID pandemic or war in Ukraine put these enterprises and their self-employed owners at greater risk than others of business failure. Insufficient levels of innovativeness make it difficult for them to adapt to changing business circumstances: the 50+ people often have insufficient knowledge and skills to enter new areas of business and develop new businesses for example for self-employment, while younger entrepreneurs lack the entrepreneurial experience to start a new business. Restrictions within e.g. protected areas and archipelagos also set limits to entrepreneurship in remote rural areas. \n\nThe project will benefit two target groups, 50 + and youth through training, mentoring and networking/clustering to improve the success and sustainability of their businesses and self-employment. It is based on network of partners with a real life understanding of the needs of the target group and challenges rural entrepreneurs face, such as lack of human and financial resources, long distance to the customers and strong embeddedness to local community. \nThe target group will undertake during a project a certificated, diverse entrepreneurship training programme, which is unique in providing a mentored personal approach to the training (local networking), as well as intense cross-border networking opportunities. Aim is to reach 104 participants. \n\nThree courses will be delivered over the three-year project period. One focuses on training local mentors (appox 30 participants) and two on rural entrepreneurship training. Participants will have their training needs analysed and a personal learning path devised from among themed components such as entrepreneurship as way to self-employment, micro business entrepreneurship, community involvement, heritage, tourism, and service-provision. Innovation, the digital business environment and business planning are also key elements of the programme. The programme will consist of face-to-face workshops, online cross-border trainings, mentoring, cross-border networking and cross-border intensive courses and study trips as well as individual work. Each mentor will assist trainees throughout the course and support their progression. After the training, the participants have drafted their own business plan. The local mentors will also stay in the area. \n\nThe project will be implemented by eight partners from four Central Baltic countries with different expertise. The lead partner, EMÜ has great experience in leading international projects and therefore is optimal to fulfil the role of the lead partner. Ruralia will devise the training programme and provide expertise to the training and mentoring modules regarding rural business and community embeddedness. Six regional organisations - Lahemaa and Soomaa from Estonia; Gauja from Latvia; Åland and Sepra from Finland; Söderhamn from Sweden – work closely with 2 target groups (50 + and youth) in their area and are each responsible for conducting the local level project activities in their region. Throughout the project, participants will have opportunities to learn from each other and make use of international expertise.\n\nThe challenges faced by our target group developing businesses in the rural areas of this project are in many cases common, thus the solutions developed to address these will be transferred across the region throughout the lifetime of the project together, adapted to suit local conditions by each partner. Through the provision of this mentored cross-border training programme and support across the four countries, the entrepreneurial capabilities and possibilities of the target group will be enhanced, the role of entrepreneurship as self-employment increased and business profitability and sustainability supported, which all, ultimately secure the target groups’ employment.","2024-04-01","2027-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",1024882.15,"ERDF",819905.72,80,"Working with 6 rural regions with fragile business environments to raise capacity in the target group (50+, youth <25) to create a new business and improve sustainability in their existing business. Capacity will be built through: SME enterprise training, cross-border exchange and study visits focusing on quality product and service and business plan (BP) preparation, mentoring support for BP and SME cluster creation in CB region.\n\nSpecific objective\n1/\t84 new BPs created and supported by 20 new mentors\n\nProject participants will:\n-\tUnderstand entrepreneurship and have the skills required to manage an SME\n-\tAppraise themselves and family for suitability for a new business\n-\tGenerate ideas for starting new enterprises\n-\tDescribe the potential problems and critical factors of business start-up\n-\tKnow where grant assistance is available for rural businesses\n-\tPrepare a business plan according to a standard business plan canvas\n\n-\t20 mentors will be trained and 84 BP canvases prepared","Sigulda, Hamina, Kolgaküla, Kuusalu vald, Harjumaa, Söderhamn, Helsinki, Jomala, Tori alevik, Tartu","LV, FI, EE, SE",{"$nulls":5},8]
["CB0300169","Solutions for age-friendly employer","Solutions for Age-Friendly Employer [SAFE]project joins four partners from different organizations and sectors from three countries in the Central Baltic Region together with the aim to strengthen and improve employment opportunities of older employees (55+) on the labor market through joint cooperation. \n\nIn all partner countries, more and more people are working later in life for various reasons. Due to their chronological age, older workers face, however, often ageism in the form of prejudice, discrimination, or neglect. We have sectors such as health and wellness that have a lot of aging staff whose work keeps the organization running. In order to value and keep older employees in working life, organizations in all partner countries need interactive tools and information about age-friendly practices. The SAFE project aims to increase the options of older people to stay on the labour market for a longer time by identifying age discrimination and solutions to tackle ageism. The experiences of the older employees themselves are made visible when fostering age diversity in workplaces.\n\nThe main objective of the project is to reduce age discrimination and to improve the opportunities of older people to stay on the labour market for a longer time. This is achieved through:\n\n- Co-creating an interactive SAFE model in the project: It creates a general framework for age-friendly solutions. The model guides partners through best age-friendly practices by using a systematic approach. An age-friendly workplace culture ensures that it benefits the entire organization and employees regardless of age. When aiming to produce holistic age-friendly solutions to complex problems, the interlinkages of different aspects of working life are considered in our model: cultural, social, environmental, commercial, and physical. However, there is no single recipe for creating a workplace culture that can harness the benefits of age diversity. The vision that crosses the borders of countries and cultures helps us to learn about different age-friendly solutions and to find the most innovative approaches that suit each participant's own work environment. \n\n- Piloting the SAFE model at workplaces: The piloting phase aims to cultivate age-friendly workplace culture by starting from interactive self-assessment. The Outcomes indicate the challenges and options for solutions related to age in each working place. The age-friendly solutions are discussed in different forums: in work communities, cross-border workshops, in SAFE training and in Podcast sessions focusing on cross-border themes. SAFE training supports to employers and employees to adopt the model and make changes to their workplaces to become more age-friendly.\n\n- Gathering and analysing feedback: Feedback will be gathered from employers and employees to identify age friendly challenges and areas for improvement. The feedback will be used to redefine and improve the SAFE model for ensuring that it is effective and meets the needs of employers and employees.\n\n- Disseminating training and policy recommendations: The SAFE model and outcomes are disseminated across borders to key stakeholders, including policymakers, public and private health authorities, and regional health experts. The project partners will also use the findings from the project to develop policy recommendations for creating more age-friendly workplaces across the region. \n\nThe main outputs include the SAFE model, workshops, training programs for employers and employees, policy recommendations, and podcast reaching a wide audience in Central Baltic area. The SAFE model can be applied at various levels of working life (policy makers, leaders, project managers, employees, citizens) and by various partners (government, non-government, and small and medium-sized organisations). By becoming aware of attitudes and workplace practices towards older workers, the workplaces are able to tailor their best age-friendly solutions according to the context. The SAFE model guides the workplaces in their solutions to make age equality a norm and to include it as part of their workplace culture. A cross-border approach, involving partners from Estonia, Finland, and Sweden, is necessary for us. The challenges of ageism are not limited to national borders, but responding to them requires a coordinated effort. \n\nNew perspective: Establishing an age-friendly workplace involves first identifying its foundation through self-assessment. Then, by collaboratively developing age-friendly solutions in an iterative process with multiple stakeholders, it brings a fresh perspective to the creation of an age-friendly workplace in the social and healthcare field.","2024-04-01","2027-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",1257489.7,"ERDF",1005991.75,80,"SAFE-project develops a comprehensive set of age-friendly workplace solutions that provide organizations with actionable strategies and guidance to enhance age inclusivity and fosters a supportive environment and network for employees of all age groups.\nSolutions for age-friendly employer is created offering an assessment tool and SAFE model guiding how to increase Anti-racist, especially age-related awareness, knowledge and antiracist actions among organizations. Pilot organisation will test the solutions and based on the feedback the tools are updated. The objective is to equip organizations with tailored solutions designed to enhance age inclusivity in each workplace. These solutions will be research-based, practical, and adaptable, offering organizations a valuable resource for addressing age-related challenges and assessing the impact of their anti-racist policies.\nTo create a comprehensive toolbox of resources, guidelines, and best practices tailored to empower employers in their journey toward fostering age-friendly workplaces.\nThe objective focuses on the development of a valuable resource that equips organizations with a curated toolbox filled with actionable tools and guidance for future reference. These resources will serve as a foundational reference for organizations seeking to promote age inclusivity.  The successful completion of this work package will result in a valuable toolbox that stands ready for organizations to access and utilize as needed. It will serve as a foundational resource for organizations considering age inclusivity initiatives.\nThrough pilot implementation among organizations, we gather valuable feedback about the functionality and impact of the solutions guided by the SAFE model and Safe SA.  The pilot phase will provide insights and data for how to optimize  SAFE solutions and tailor these according to the organisational context. Podcast is used as an effective way for reaching a wider audience and create a SAFE network in working life. Created among older workers, Safe Club strengthens the voice of older workers and makes them a more visible force in the organization . Tailored SAFE solutions ensure their flexible use in working life organizations of different sizes and types. By using SAFE SA for pre- and post-evaluation, the organization can have up to date information about the effects of their solutions and to compare their results with the evaluation results in their own field, in their own country, and with measurements in Sweden and Estonia.\nTo enhance and expand the implementation of age-friendly organization solutions by recruiting new organizations interested in participating and fostering collaboration with similar projects. This will contribute to the project's broader goal of creating more age-friendly workplaces and strengthening the project's impact.\nTo maximize the visibility, dissemination, and positive influence of the project's Solutions for age-friendly employer, best practices, and outcomes. This work package aims to promote the adoption of age-friendly practices in a wider context and measure the project's overall impact.","Stockholm, -, Tuulna küla, Haapsalu","SE, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0300234","Stronger together towards a more inclusive labour market","Discrimination and low inclusion of people with special needs in the labour market due to employers' ignorance, stereotypes and concerns, due to labour market disbalance and due to insufficient labour market services is the joint cross-project challenge that the project addresses.\n\nBased on identified common challenges, the overall objective of the project is to combines forces and competencies to become stronger together and going towards a more inclusive labour market by encouraging more employers to introduce and apply anti-discriminatory policies by employing people with special needs or by implementing other employment related activities in their organisations.\n\nThe project will offer real assistance, road maps and tools to companies and organizations in the practical application of anti-discrimination policies. It will provide an understanding of how to implement an anti-discrimination policy at the organizational level, to which employers are invited by national and EU policy planners for quite some time now, however have struggled hugely. At least 40 employers will apply the anti-discrimination policy during the pilot. The approach will become an inspiration to follow for other employers, NGOs and municipalities in the Central Baltic region. \n\nThe main output of the project is participation of at least 60 individuals representing organisations (in cross-border traning activities for employers) and at least 5 organisations (all 3 project partner organsations and at least 2 experts involved in the project and representing organisations working in the specific field) in joint actions across borders. As a result of the project, at least 40 organizations, mainly SMEs, will have applied anti-discrimination policy. The key beneficiary organisations are the target group – the employers, however by applying anti-discriminatory policies people with special needs will also benefit. \n\nThe projects approach is to pilot and start a serious long-term service called “employee as a service”. The service will be provided to employers in Central Baltic region through work integrated social enterprises (WISE), that will focus on improving employment prospects for those furthest from the labour market. The enterprises will act as an intermediary or a bridge covering a huge gap and imbalance in current labour market that significantly burdens the equal employment opportunities and applying anti-discriminatory policies in organisations and SMEs towards people with special needs.\n\nApart from joint cross-border actions, knowledge transfer, experience sharing etc., the added value that the cross-border cooperation will bring is a change of entrepreneurial attitude, consolidated cross-border anti-discrimination policy documentation ready for approval and implementation in Latvian, Swedish and Central Baltic region organisations, knowledgeable employers with cooperation links in the partner country, success stories of actual employment of people with special needs that will encourage other employers to implement anti-discrimination policies and other potential employees to enter the labour market in the future.\n\nThe new and unique aspect of the project is the piloting of the “employee as a service” through work integrated social enterprises. This is not common and known approach in Latvia and is a rather underutilized approach in Sweden, however the partnership considers it to be potentially very effective when working with employers and their attitudes towards anti-discrimination. The partners will implement the unique approach in the long term after the end of the project in cooperation with local governments in Latvia, Sweden and the Central Baltic region.\n \nThe indicative total budget of the 36 months project is 1400493,96 euros. Valmiera Development Agency (lead partner, Latvia) = 348564,88 euros; Coompanion Östergötland Economic Association (partner, Sweden) = 752129,40 euros; The Samaritan Association of Latvia (partner, Latvia) = 299799,68 euros.","2024-05-01","2027-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",1396403.84,"ERDF",1117123.06,80,"When all the activities in this Work package are implemented, at least 60 organisations (in cross-border traning activities for employers) will have participated in joint actions across borders.\nThis work package focuses on working with people with special needs (training, engaging them in labour market, supporting) as well as implementing anti-discrimination workplace policies in organisations. As a result at least 40 organisations in Latvia and Sweden will have applied anti-discriminatory policies.","Valmiera, Norrköping","LV, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0300214","Succeed in Business – complex entrepreneurship training for young people 18-25 years old, who come from low-income families and reside in Latvia, Estonia and Finland","The project will tackle joint cross-border challenges related to high unemployment of youth from low-income families, who are 18-25 years old and reside in Latvia (Zemgale, Riga and Riga region), Estonia (Lõuna-Eesti region) and Finland (Länsi-Suomi region). Young people often struggle to get a job and can find themselves in a long-term unemployment or NEET situation, as employers generally prefer to hire personnel with a prior work experience. Individuals from low-income families are particularly vulnerable since they are forced to earn a living from an early age and, in many cases, have to settle for low-qualified positions. Moreover, fee-paid education is not accessible to them. As a consequence, young people with poor income are frequently unable to realise own potential, build an impressive career, earn a desired salary and achieve job satisfaction. \n\nRunning a business appears a feasible alternative for young people. However, this path is also associated with a number of challenges. For example, target group representatives suffer from a mismatch between skills they have and skills needed. Lack of hands-on experience along with a vague understanding of how a company functions does not allow them to establish sustainable businesses with a growth potential. At the same time, current business environment influenced by Covid crisis and recent geopolitical events calls for flexible, resilient and effective enterprises.\n\nThe project overall objective is to design and implement a complex and dynamic cross-border training course consisting of 207 learning hours, which will significantly increase entrepreneurial abilities of young people from low-income families. The course will last for 1 year, encompass 7 face-to-face and 10 online events and will be conducted twice: in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. In each cycle, trainees will learn and practice idea generation and idea assessment techniques, get a thorough understanding of how a company functions and study operations that occur in its various domains, including general management and business development, human resources, marketing, sales and customer relationships, finance and production. Afterwards, trainees will create cross-border multi-functional teams of 5-6 persons centered around specific business ideas and spend the following 4 months working on them. 18 thematic mentors will be available for help. As a result, young people will get ready for a release of a minimum viable product (MVP) and a business launch and have concrete action plans for all company domains studied earlier. \n\nThe following methods will be used: \n\n- “Look around and think big”: Trainees will be encouraged to be on a continuous lookout for current and emerging market trends, consumer needs and desires and demand tendencies, as well as regularly share findings with each other. This method goes beyond the existing practice in the region. They will also be motivated to consider export potential and scaling opportunities at early stages. \n\n- “More practice, less theory”: High concentration of business cases, problem-solving and business simulation exercises that reflect real-life situations entrepreneurs deal with in different domains. Lack of experience will be tackled by a variety of role-playing tasks, which is an original approach. \n\n- “Learn from practitioners”: Trainees will be able to interact with entrepreneurs, including innovation leaders, flagship companies and benchmark setters, in a number of formats.\n\n- “Teamwork is a priority”: Trainees will work in cross-border teams with rotating team members and tasks. Such approach will help individuals define a desired role within a business.\n\nEvery trainee will have a curator who will support him/her during the whole course.\n\nThanks to cross-border cooperation, trainees will be exposed to a business environment in 3 countries, expand their vision of how companies operate in each of them, dive into a larger pool of ideas, identify market niches they could occupy in the region and build long-lasting connections in neighboring countries, which is expected to result in establishment of viable companies with a cross-border focus.\n\nA total of 100 young people will be enrolled in the course during 2 cycles. 82 persons will be active participants. Project result directly contributes to Central Baltic Programme result indicator, as involvement in the 1-year complex training course would definitely increase entrepreneurship of the trainees. It is assumed that 30% of active participants (equals to 24 persons) will start own businesses within 1 year after course completion. \n\nExercises conducted during events will be compiled into a Training Material Handbook. \n\nProject budget is 882 003.30 EUR. A relatively high amount is caused by a substantial set of activities, cross-border nature of the events and individual support and feedback provided during the course.","2024-05-01","2026-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",882003.3,"ERDF",705602.64,80,"Project specific objective is to increase entrepreneurship of 82 target group representatives and enable them to successfully run a business after an active participation in the one-year cross-border entrepreneurship training course consisting of 207 learning hours and conducted in 2 cycles for Latvian (Zemgale, Riga and Riga region), Finnish (Länsi-Suomi region) and Estonian (Lõuna-Eesti region) residents. ","Tampere, Tartu, Jelgava","FI, EE, LV",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0500277","Empowering female creative entrepreneurs in the age group 40+","THE COMMON CHALLENGE OF THE PROGRAMME AREA YOU ARE JOINTLY TACKLING IN YOUR PROJECT\nThe project partners have detected that for women in the age group 40+ finding a new job on the labour market becomes significantly more difficult compared to younger persons.\nThus, the main common cross-border challenge the partners want to tackle is the less competitive position of 40+ women on Estonian and Latvian labour market.\n\nTHE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT AND THE EXPECTED CHANGE YOUR PROJECT WILL MAKE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION\nThe project partners are committed to improving the situation by empowering new creative entrepreneurs in Ida-Viru and Vidzeme, and give the representatives of the project’s target group (female 40+) the freedom and self-confidence on the labour market they deserve. More, specifically, the partners plan to increase the entrepreneurship of at least 20 ladies (10 from EE and 10 from LV) with the help of a tailor-made entrepreneurship programme in the field of creative industries carried out in cross-border cooperation.\n\nTHE MAIN OUTPUTS YOU WILL PRODUCE AND THOSE WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THEM\nThe main output of the project will be the successfully completed creative industries entrepreneurship programme with the key beneficiaries being the 20 ladies, who will complete the programme.\n\nTHE APPROACH YOU PLAN TO TAKE AND WHY A CROSS-BORDER APPROACH IS NEEDED\nThe main activities of the programme include mentor clubs (1 day workshops, including thematic practical presentations, discussions and 1:1 discussions with entrepreneurs on the day of the workshop or on the following days), trainings (in-depth 2-day trainings), study trips in Estonia and Latvia, and creative industry focus days in the end of the project to present the success stories of the project, promote the topics of creative and female entrepreneurship. \nAll the project activities will incorporate cross-border cooperation elements.\nFor example, all mentor clubs will all include a thematic intervention from the other country. If an EE mentor club is about marketing, in addition to EE mentor(s) the event will include an online intervention from Latvia (e.g. LV mentor or entrepreneur, who makes a thematic presentation regarding LV experience, problems and solutions, etc.).\nHaving the actual cooperation elements and joint actions in the frames of all the activities makes sure that cross-border aspects and wider picture is taken into consideration throughout the project. It also means that all the activities are truly planned and implemented in a cross-border fashion by the project partners.\nTo achieve the project’s objectives and results and effectively tackle the challenge described above, cross-border cooperation provides a considerable added-value to the planned activities and increasing the entrepreneurship of the representatives of the target group. \nAmong others, the cross-border cooperation provides the participants and the project partners:\n-\tbetter exposure to new ideas and perspectives, as the programme brings together creative entrepreneurs, mentors and stake-holders from different countries;\n-\topportunity to put the local initiatives in a broader context, as otherwise people are not used to seeing their activities in a wider geographical context;\n-\taccess to wider range of resources, expertise and experiences, as the cross-border pool of mentors and experience of participants can provide access to knowledge, which is not available in their own country;\n-\topportunities to network and create contacts with creative entrepreneurs across the border.\nAll this would not be possible in case of a national or regional development project and hence stresses the need to carry out the activities in a cross-border manner.\n\nWHAT IS NEW/ORIGINAL ABOUT THE PROJECT?\nThe intensity of cross-border cooperation to be implemented in the frames of the entrepreneurship programme and the horizontal use of cross-border elements in all the project activities is the most innovative element for the partners. Such practice goes beyond the regular practice of the partners and partner regions but will greatly benefit the participants of the entrepreneurship programme.","2024-05-01","2025-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",213398.38,"ERDF",170718.7,80,"Completion of a cross-border entrepreneurship programme by at least 20 female entrepreneurs (at least 10 EE and 10 LV) in the age group 40+ in the field of creative industries.","Cesis, Jõhvi","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500257","Cultural and linguistic differences in labour market","1. The common challenge of the programme area we are jointly tackling in our project it to improve the occupancy in the labour market of youngsters who has different cultural and/or linguistic background.\n\n2. The overall objective of the project and the expected change our project will make to the current situation.\nThe expected change concerns the the statistic as the unemployment rate in Estonia of young non-estonians is approximately 30% bigger comparing to young Estonians. /www.stat.ee/\nPeriod: 2009-2021, focus-group: 18-24 years old youngsters.\nFinland's youth foreign-born population exhibits a lower employment rate than native-born Finns. According to Finnish stats, in 2022 the unemployment rate for foreign-born youth in Finland is 23.2%, while the unemployment rate for native-born youth is 14.47%. /www.stat.fi/ This suggests that foreign-born youth face greater challenges in finding employment, likely due to language barriers and other cultural factors.\n\n3. The main outputs we will produce and those who will benefit from them are:\n- to improve the competiveness inside our target-group (10 young people from EST + 10 from FIN) - participants should have found the preferred occupancy (includes entrepreneurship) in labour market for the end of period i.e. after 18 months\n- be improved and tested educational program and materials for meeting the wider auditorium (the other centers of learning) after the end of current program\n\n4. Our approach and the reasons for taking a cross-border approach are as follows:\n- self-mapping\n- involving practitioners\n- methods that support self-driven studies and researches\n- networking\n\nFor all those approaches the cross-border dimension is enriching, but specially for the last one. With cross-border network our target-group can get:\n- the necessary confidence by finding out the people with similar potential and problems\n- unique contacts and clear ideas how to use those contacts to meet their (and current program) targets i.e. improve their competiveness in labour market\n\n5. What is new/original about the project:\nThe target-group combined with the goal is rather original. The big narrative in educational level today is the \"melting pot\" to get the results by mixing different cultures together. This is definitely most right way to do it and we definitely won't oppose to this, but complement this approach. By positive attitude and respect to their heritage we will give them confidence, tools and contacts how to turn their current disadvantages into advantages.","2024-05-01","2025-10-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",169264.5,"ERDF",135411.6,80,"The project objective is improving entrepreneurial skills and employability of 30 non-native young people (mainly 17-24 years old) in the towns of Narva and Pori through specifically developed model based on the participating organisations previous experiences and expertise. The objective achievement will be measured by: \n- pre-post skill assessment\n- number of certificates with achieved learning outcomes\n- number of potential start-ups to be established\n- participants' confidence level (surveys)\n- participants' satisfaction level (surveys)\n- collecting participants' success stories (including involvement in local communities and businesses)\n- tracking the career progression of participants after the project ends (in 6 months and 1 year).\n\nAt the end a successful model will be introduced to local authorities, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and other project collaborators to benefit from.","Pori, Narva","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500256","Region of opportunities: entrepreneurship training course for long-term unemployed women with children who represent the largest national minorities in Latvia and Estonia","The challenge the project will address is long-term unemployment of women with children who belong to the largest national minorities in Latvia and Estonia. Women in both countries predominantly bear social responsibilities, such as taking care of children and elderly relatives, and have more domestic duties than men, which makes it difficult to meet rigid requirements of some employers and withstand demanding working conditions. According to a survey, 2/3 of women with children faced discriminatory behaviour of employers either in a straightforward or implicit way. Moreover, jobless years, inability to realize potential and absence of income have a negative impact on target group representatives’ (TGRs) self-esteem and self-confidence. Being a national minority makes women even more vulnerable, as some may have lost fluency in the state language - Latvian or Estonian. At the same time, percentage of national minority representatives in the total population is significant: more than 35% in Latvia and 30% in Estonia with the Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians being the largest groups. \n\nThe common opportunity lies in involvement of TGRs in entrepreneurship via a tailored practical training course that corresponds to the current business environment challenged by Covid-19 aftermath and war in Ukraine, personalised consulting and supportive, safe and caring ecosystem. Another opportunity is linked to benefits each participant will get from teaming up with other TGRs, working together and learning how to define, pool together and make use of complementary skills, knowledge and experience, as well as elevate each other by sharing.\n\nThe project overall objective is to design and implement an interactive, immersive and action-packed cross-border training course (131 learning hours), which will provide TGRs with a key business information and help develop essential competencies sufficient to launch and run a micro or small company. The course will last for 10 months, encompass 9 cross-border one-day events and will be conducted twice: in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2.\n\nSequence of events in one cycle is shown below. (Innovative elements are marked with *).\n\nMODULE 1 – YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS: Awareness-raising conference, self-analytical and confidence-boosting workshop “Who are you? What are you?”, introduction into mastermind groups “Strengths combat weaknesses”* and workshop “Imagine your business”.\n\nMODULE 2 – KEY BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE: Workshops “Sell with confidence”, “Enormous possibilities of the internet”, “Finance fundamentals”, “Branding: make your packaging attractive” and consulting marathon “Clarify it!”*.\n\nMethods that will be used are: self-awareness and self-analysis techniques, mastermind grouping, people-to-people support, immersive practical tasks linked to business ideas, micro-learning, mind mapping, visual storytelling*, foresight sessions*, creativity activation techniques.\n\nThe project will capitalise on education, professional skills, knowledge and work experience each participant has at the moment and, therefore, can build a business around them, which is an original approach. Trainees will start working on concrete business ideas already from the second event. Each participant is welcome to either work on her own idea or choose one from a compilation of possible ideas prepared by partners based on industries most popular among women in Latvia and Estonia. Such approach also goes beyond the existing practice in the region.\n\nDuring the course, each trainee will be able to apply for personalised consultations from a selection of 12 mentors. Partners will establish a cross-border Help Point to advise trainees on business practicalities, such as company registration, licensing, reporting, bank rules, etc. English for Business will also be paid attention to.\n\nThanks to cross-border cooperation, trainees will be exposed to a business environment in 2 countries, expand their vision of how companies operate in each of them, dive into a larger pool of ideas, identify market niches they could occupy in the region and build long-lasting connections in a neighbouring country, which is anticipated to result in establishment of viable companies with a cross-border focus.\n\nA total of 66 women will be enrolled in the course during 2 cycles. 54 persons will be active participants. Project result directly contributes to the Programme result indicator, as involvement in the 10-month complex training course would definitely increase entrepreneurship of the trainees. It is expected that 30% of active participants (equals to 16 persons) will start own businesses within 1 year after course completion.\n\nActivities conducted during the events will be compiled into a Training Material Handbook.\n\nProject area is Riga, Riga region and Zemgale in Latvia and Põhja-Eesti region in Estonia.","2024-09-01","2025-11-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",212191.28,"ERDF",169753.02,80,"Project specific objective is to increase entrepreneurship of 54 target group representatives (TGRs) and enable them to successfully run a business after an active participation in the 10-month cross-border entrepreneurship training course consisting of 9 events and 131 learning hours and conducted in 2 cycles for Latvian (Riga, Riga region, Zemgale) and Estonian (Põhja-Eesti region) residents.","Tallinn, Harjumaa, Jelgava","EE, LV",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500266","Silver Talent Skillset","The common challenge in our programme area is the underutilization of the skills, experience, and potential of the older adult population, often referred to as silvertalent, who possess a wealth of knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit but face barriers to accessing employment opportunities. \nOur project endeavors to make a significant impact on the current landscape by fostering an entrepreneurial culture, nurturing digital and green skills among the elderly, and improving their language abilities. By doing so, we aim to unlock their untapped potential and make them competitive in the labor market, ultimately bolstering the economic vibrancy of our region. This initiative seeks to pave the way for a more inclusive and dynamic workforce, bridging generational gaps and empowering silvertalent to contribute actively to our community. \nOur project envisions a profound transformation — a substantial surge in the employment rate among silvertalent in our designated region, leading to a more inclusive and vibrant economy. We aspire to witness a quantifiable upswing in the number of mature individuals initiating and thriving in entrepreneurial endeavors, armed with essential digital and green skills. This change will not only benefit our elderly population but also invigorate our local economy, creating a win-win situation for both our community and its seasoned members. \nMain Outputs: \n- Holistic Training Program: We are committed to creating and implementing an all-encompassing training program, meticulously crafted to furnish silvertalent with indispensable entrepreneurial, digital, and green skills. \n- Robust Mentorship Ecosystem: Our project will establish a robust mentorship network, providing participants with not only knowledge and skills but also the vital support necessary for active participation in business endeavors and to boost their competitiveness in the labor market. Furthermore, we will engage university faculty with expertise in silvertalent, fostering a unique support system that combines experience and academic insights. \n\nThe primary beneficiaries of our project are silvertalents, individuals aged 50 and above. Through this initiative, they will gain invaluable knowledge, acquire vital skills, and receive the necessary support to actively participate in business ventures, enhancing their competitiveness in the labor market. \n\nThe positive impact of our project will ripple through the broader community. By empowering our silvertalent, we aim to mitigate the issue of elderly unemployment and the underutilization of the skills and experiences of these individuals. As a result, the entire community will enjoy the economic contributions of these empowered silvertalents, fostering a more economically vibrant and inclusive society. \n\nEmbracing a cross-border approach is paramount, as the potential of silvertalents knows no geographic confines. Through cross-border collaboration, we unlock access to a broader spectrum of expertise, resources, and markets, creating a more comprehensive and potent intervention. This approach ensures that the benefits of our project resonate beyond regional borders, fostering a profound and widespread impact. \n\nInnovation and Uniqueness: Our project distinguishes itself through its dedicated attention to the often-overlooked demographic of older adults. We harness the existing expertise within our regional universities to unearth and celebrate the strengths and aspirations of silvertalents. Our initiative is distinct in its mission to not only enhance their competitiveness in the labor market but also to directly contribute to lifelong learning objectives. This approach offers a novel and invaluable perspective on harnessing the untapped potential of a crucial segment of our society. \n\nExplanation: Silvertalent refers to individuals aged 50 and above, who constitute our primary target group. They are considered \"talent\" because they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience, accumulated over the years. However, despite their expertise, they have not yet ventured into entrepreneurship. Our mission is to equip these individuals with the necessary skills and support, making them more appealing and competitive in the labor market. In doing so, we aim to unlock their latent potential and enable them to contribute actively to economic growth and community development. It's important to note that many of them currently lack sufficient digital and green skills, which we aim to address through this project.","2024-09-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",195338.66,"ERDF",156270.92,80,"By the end of this work package, the project aims to increase the digital entrepreneurship capabilities of 100 older adults (50 in Estonia and 50 in Finland), thereby facilitating their successful integration or reintegration into the labor market through self-employment or digital entrepreneurship. This objective targets older adults who are either aspiring entrepreneurs or seeking to enhance their digital skills to remain competitive in today’s economy.\n\nThe change aimed for is quantifiable as an increase in the number of older adults who have developed viable business plans or initiated entrepreneurial ventures by the end of the training program. Success will be measured through participants’ ability to conceptualize and articulate clear business ideas, demonstrate proficiency in digital tools essential for business operations, and exhibit an entrepreneurial mindset. ","Helsinki, Johtla-Järve","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500281","Upskilling Immigrants for Business Planning and Entrepreneurship using AI Technologies","The UPBEAT project is an innovative initiative designed to address the shared challenge of immigrant integration in the Central Baltic region. Immigrants and refugees, due to skill mismatches or other barriers, often grapple with limited employment opportunities leading to high unemployment rates and subsequent increase of social welfare costs, talent emigration and rising social tensions. The primary objective of this project is to reverse this trend by fostering a more inclusive society through targeted upskilling in entrepreneurship and business planning using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.\n\nOur project's tangible outputs include AI-driven upskilling digital tools and training program in entrepreneurship and business planning alongside awareness campaigns that highlight the potential of these proposed upskilling opportunities. These outputs primarily benefit immigrants who will gain critical tools and knowledge needed for successful ventures into business sectors. Additionally, societies within the Central Baltic region stand to reap broader socio-economic benefits from this initiative. \n\nWhat sets our project apart is its novel use of AI technology in enhancing upskilling processes. By transforming existing business development guides into easily accessible AI-driven formats and providing AI-assisted support, UPBEAT introduces a fresh tech-centric approach towards immigrant upskilling. We offer AI-assistance in various entrepreneurship and business planning tasks, such as market analysis, business model and value proposition design, or risk management. AI-driven assessment will help to create a holistic learner skills profile and recommend relevant learning modules to an immigrant. \n\nDue to high potential of starting service businesses by immigrants and refugees (e.g. in food services, creative industries, hospitality, beauty industry) we embed relevant content from this economic sector into the upskilling tools and program. This venture directly contributes to program-level results by amplifying socio-economic benefits throughout the region. \n\nGiven that challenges faced by immigrants span beyond national boundaries within the Central Baltic region, a cross-border approach is essential for our project's success. Through collaboration across borders, our project aims not only to harness collective expertise from different Central Baltic countries but also to foster opportunities for cross-border entrepreneurship and business development. \n \nThrough this unique cross-border approach powered by cutting-edge technology, UPBEAT aims not merely at integrating immigrants into existing systems but also empowers them with skills necessary for thriving as entrepreneurs in their new homes. We believe such an empowered migrant population will strengthen collective potential across regions by adding diversity and dynamism to local economies—contributing positively towards creating an inclusive society where everyone has access to equal opportunities. \n\nA critical aspect of our approach is actively involving the target group participants in all phases of the project; from requirement analysis and curriculum development in co-creation with all partners and selected participants from immigrant entrepreneurs to user-based testing in co-creation with partners and target group individuals, finally leading to their active participation in the final upskilling phase.\n\nUPBEAT represents a pioneering attempt at utilizing AI technology to address pressing social issues like immigrant integration. Its success could pave the way forward for similar initiatives worldwide—setting new standards in using technology as a tool for social empowerment.","2024-08-01","2026-01-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",213299.98,"ERDF",170639.98,80,"Enhancing employment opportunities and entrepreneurship capabilities of immigrants and refugees using AI-assisted upskilling","Tartu, Helsinki","EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0500280","Central Baltic Region youth trying different professions","The“CentralBaltic Region youth trying different professions”project tackles the challenges of young people(18-25) employment opportunities in the labor market with the aim to enable the ability to overcome failures and promote entrepreneurship and leadership skills, as well as self-realization and development and reducing the unemployed numbering all the regions.The project will implement a programme promoting the development of youngsters' entrepreneurial and innovation abilities, purposefulness, thinking out of the box and courage to execute their ideas. Target group is young people between ages of 18to 25 in the current context,the prospects,and opportunities of young people in the labor market are uncertain.Transition from learning to earning money is becoming more and more problematic.Most of young people receive only classical education and do not receive informal education or training and are not employed because the skills of young people are not in high demand among employers.That's why we want to transfer this knowledge through non-formal education. In addition,efforts to promote informal education are critical to supporting young people on their path to competitiveness and personal development.\nThe need we recognize is the high unemployment rate among young people,therefore low set of skills and professional competences,lack of experience that can have a long lasting effect on one’s future career development, as well as the lack of inclusion in the area of decision making that directly affects our target group. With our activities and inclusion of young people in the planning of this project,we are eager to be the starting point for the change of entrepreneurial education inclusion through the governmental systems, allowing entrepreneurial and self-development training in the high school and college or university curriculum to transform the education system in a way that’s skillsbased and promotes individual development.\nDuring the 2 cycles of the project, we plan to reach up to 80 participants, 60 of whom will continue to participate in the internship and/or startup phase of the project, involve at least 20 SMEs, attract at least 20 mentors, lecturers, career counsellors and experts. We will organize several motivational events, different kinds of selection and evaluation of participants, as well as the opportunity to get acquainted with at least 3 employers (networking and dialogues between counterparts of the labour market) with the possibility to become a full time employee or to set up their own start-up business. We will use cross-border cooperation for international mentoring and counselling with career counsellors (entrepreneurship enhancing simulations and problem-solving exercises), therefore participants from both countries can broaden their horizons in multicultural business spectrum and understand the niche necessities in cross-border markets. At the end of the project we will provide mobility of participants to facilitate the demands of the joint labour market, meaning the participants will have the opportunity to exchange experiences in a cross-border way with an international internship for 5 days (experience exchange and learning as result of joint implementation). Also, within the result of the project we will create a methodology guideline handbook including best practice examples, as well as the visual identity and values of the project, which will be passed on to organisations active in both the youth and social fields. \nIn today's labour market, entrepreneurial qualities are demanded by employers. A Swedish survey, conducted by Nova after the Covid pandemic, shows that employers and recruiters are increasingly demanding qualities such as drive and communication. Our participants will be able to train their entrepreneurial skills and other skills such as communication, collaboration, which will make them more competitive in the labour market, therefore reducing the unemployment rate among young people and improving the lives of the inhabitants in our cross-border region. With this project we will raise awareness among the targeted less competitive groups and employers, improve accessibility to jobs by creating a bridge between young people and employers and creating a handbook with methods and information about this topic. We will focus on entrepreneurship enhancing simulations and problem-solving exercises to promote entrepreneurship, so that young people have more confidence to start their own business. We will show young people more tools for digital and online skills development and working. The budget will be distributed among the project partners in the following proportions: allocation for Lead partner Impact Hub is approximately 44,17% of the total project budget and 55,83 % for STARTcentrum Social Impact economic association.","2024-10-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",212828.73,"ERDF",170262.98,80,"Raise awareness among the targeted less competitive  group and  build their personal capacity.","Liepāja,  Örebro","LV, SE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500248","CoMe Stronger - Elderly men go to the museum","As in most European countries, the populations of Finland and Estonia are rapidly ageing. Ageing societies have different kinds of needs and demands for the services provided to them, and not all services are yet developed to address these needs in an ideal way. Cultural services are one of the services which would benefit from more diverse audiences and from the engagement of elderly people. Museums in both countries face challenges with both attracting certain groups and improving their services. \n\nIn general, men use less cultural services than women. Men are also more likely to experience loneliness and depression. Studies have shown that cultural engagement can improve the overall well-being of the elderly as well as lower the risk of dementia and the odds of loneliness. \n\nConsidering the fact that culture provides well-being and improves health especially for the elderly, it is important to develop these services in a way that encourages more elderly men to take advantage of culture and the benefits of it, and at the same time helps the museums to develop their services on a more user-oriented basis and to reach new target audiences. \n\nCoMe Stronger – Elderly men go to the museum is based on an earlier CB project, CoMe Strong, which aimed to activate inactive men aged 45-75, especially those who have a risk of social exclusion. As a part of the project, men’s groups were developed in the regions of South-West Finland and Tartu (Tarmo-groups in Finland and Meeste Garaaz in Estonia). The men’s groups are still operating actively in both countries and the men themselves expressed their interest to start another project involving museum activities together. The men’s groups both in South-West Finland and Tartu will play a major role in the co-development process in CoMe Stronger project. The men’s groups will also strengthen their co-operation by meeting for a joint development workshop in Tartu. During the visit the men will visit the European Capital of Culture 2024 events to come up with some inspiration for new ideas on what kind of services would be needed to attract more elderly men to museums. \n\nThe main objective of CoMe Stronger is to improve public museum services in a way that encourages more elderly men to use the services. The project will pilot a co-development process with the groups of elderly men and cooperating museums. The co-development process will be carried out by gathering the men’s groups into user panels for co-operating museums and using co-design as a method for developing 6 new service products that are especially aimed at elderly men. These new service products are based on the ideas and creativity of the elderly men from different backgrounds, and, as they are designed by the men themselves, they are also expected to attract more elderly men to museums. \n\nThe project will co-develop 6 new service products for museums together with elderly men. The service products will be piloted and modelled during the project. The project will also create guidelines for using user panels as a way to co-develop museum services for elderly men. \n\nBy the end of the project, cooperating museums will have finished models of 6 new service products that they can use to attract more elderly men to museums, as well as the guidelines for co-developing services by using user panels. The aim is to strengthen the co-operation between men’s groups and cooperating museums during the project so that the museums can carry on user panel activities with the men after the project. The service products and guidelines can be utilized by any museum interested in improving their services for elderly men. The guidelines of user panels can also be used by museums to develop services for other target groups. \n\nSo far, there have not been user panels of elderly men co-developing museum services together with the museums. Most of the user panels earlier have been for young people and mainly to evaluate the services, not to co-develop them. This way of developing services for this age group is something new. \n\nAs a result of the project, the well-being and the experience of active citizenship of the elderly men participating in user panels will increase. Elderly men in general will have a lower threshold to use museum services once there are service products developed especially geared towards their needs and interests.","2024-08-01","2026-01-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",213406.25,"ERDF",170725,80,"The objective is to co-develop 6 service products aimed especially for elderly men by the museums and to create guidelines on how to use user panels as a way to co-develop museum services for elderly men.  ","Tartu, Turku","EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0500268","Water safety methodology for young people of Estonia and Latvia","The project “Water safety methodology for young people of Estonia and Latvia” is planned to contribute to the improvement of public service by joint cross-border creation of the practical solution to improve the education on water safety topics in Estonia and Latvia (to reduce the number of drownings and accidents near/on water in a long run). Project partners: Watergratt Pirita NGO (WG)- lead partner, Latvian Beach Life-guard Assicoacion (LGPA).\n\nChallenge: low level of water safety awareness in both partner countries among youngsters. \nEstonia: the rising level of death from drowning, emergency situations near water sources (according to the statistics provided by Estonian Rescue Department 29 people drowned in 2023, which is already a higher number than last year. The numbers are provided on the state of the beginning of September, meaning that this number can rise.) \nSituation in Latvia is similar. Jurmala is a high risk region being located on the coast and being one of the most popular sea sides in Latvia. 316 drowning cases are registered in Latvia between 2020 and 2022. \n\nAt the same time there is a lack of preventive education on the topic of water safety provided by local services in both partner countries.\n\nThe main result of the project is the creation of a practical solution to improve the education on water safety topics in Estonia and Latvia. The Main outcome - preventive methodology on water safety topic for youth that would be promoted to target groups in order for them to use it as part of their educational programmes. \n\nSustainability of results:\n-the methodology we're about to create will be used by partner organisations as part of their educational \nprogrammes for youth (extracurricular classes for schools, youth centres, youth organisations etc.) Both organisations already have connections in those institutions and cooperate with them by providing trainings. The number of young people we train is growing every year. \n-first and foremost, the methodology is going to be digitalized for the ease of promotion and use by target groups. \n-the methodology is planned to get vastly promoted among national institutions and NGOs (that are dealing with water safety issues) of Estonia and Latvia in order for them to become multipliers and include their methodology in their educational programmes as well. \n\nBeneficiaries: \nThe target groups - institutions and other local ogranisations that deal with water safety topics to whom the created methodology will be promoted to and who will work with us on the transferability of the results.\nFor this project we’ve chosen 14-18 y.o. youngsters as the end user of the project's product - the methodology on water safety, as it’s the main risk group.\nWe see the need in cross-border cooperation due to the common challenges firstly. Secondly, combining the skills, expertise and knowledge that we possess, a more complex and “in-depth” solution can be provided to improve the extra-curricular water safety education system in our countries. \n\nAs a result a new innovative solution will be developed - the complex easy-to transfer water safety methodology that will contain:\nboth theoretical and practical elements (the existing programs cover only the theoretical parts)\nawareness of the risk-preventive behaviour on/near water covering the specifics of all 4 seasons (the existing programs cover only summer season specifics)\nknowledge of effective behaviour both in emergency situations and in normal conditions (the existing programs do not provide enough info on effective behaviour in emergency situations)\nrecommendations on delivery of the methodology to the end user (no recommendations are usually provided, considering that most volunteers that are lecturing now at schools come not from educational background, those guidelines are very important)\nrecommendations on methodology adaptation for the needs of various groups (including fewer opportunity groups, eg. physical disabilities, cultural differences etc.)\nConsidering that at the moment there are no similar programs dedicated specifically for the end-user, we see our product to be innovative. \n\nProject overall budget - 242873 euro. Budget pre partner WG - 159090 euro, LGPA - 83781 euro. Numbers are indicated including the 20% co-financing.","2024-07-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",213320.4,"ERDF",170656.32,80,"To provide a working solution in a form of a water safety methodology to be used by the organisations, providing education for youngster in that field and improve the existing service through that. \n","Jurmala, Tallinn","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100153","Take the Challenge! – established and promoted employment opportunities in timber framing on the labour market in Baltics","In Baltic region traditional woodworking and timber framing belong to the crafts native people have practiced since ancient times and there is great interest from general public to acquire knowledge in traditional woodworking and timber framing. At the same time there is very small options or almost no options in Baltic region to acquire given competences to become attractive for labour market or set first steps as self-employed.\nNovadays there is lack of masters that possess timber framing knowledge. Despite the fact that wood and forest belong to the national resources in Baltic region and are common as material in architecture.\nThus, from one side there is demand in woodworking and timber framing skills and in people that posses these skills.\nFrom the other – there are no mechanisms to secure this supply.\nSo, there is incredible large gap between demand and supply of these skills, including correct understanding of woodworking sustainability. As well as there is large gap between willingness to practice woodworking, intention to be employed in this industry and opportunity to practically acquire these specific skills to offer himself in the labor market and be attractive as employee\n\nProject tasks is to provide solution and create opportunity to acquire basic traditional woodworking and timber framing skills in short as possible time but using most appropriate teaching approach through practical training and in efficient way to acquire competence leading to employment or even in future own small business start-up. \nTarget audience – less competitive groups of people – young people under 25\nTask is challenging because there are almost no more left masters with traditional timber framing skills. \nTherefore join efforts between countries are crucial. \n\nProject output are 80 in traditional woodworking and timber framing competences in international environment on-the-job trained young people with increased employment opportunity and competitiveness","2023-04-01","2025-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",574012.6800000001,"ERDF",459210.13,80,"CB project Nr. CB0100153 \"Take the Challenge\" is devoted to young people that currently are under enployment risk and/or face problems in future carrier develoment.  Project uniqueness is to secure our target audience with an opportunity  to acquire skills in traditional woodworking and timber framing that our ancestors and even grandfathers possessed and applied building their residential and household buildings. Unfortunately due to different reasons our sociey has lost these competences. Small is the number of Masters who still possess and apply traditional timber framing skills and small are opportunities to acquire these competences.\nMeanwhile, there is demand for timber framing. In addition, people in Baltic region like to work with wood and hands, and wood is traditional building material for centuries here and wooden architecture still dominate.\n\nThus, it was decided to give young people opportunity to acquire unique traditional timber framing skills to become more competitive and strenthen their employment and carreer opportunities.\nTimer framing is a traditional building method where all joints are made of wood and no metal details are used\n\nIn frame of project are planned to be organised in total 8 training programs where each one lasts 10 days during which young people  acquire practical skills in woodworking and timber framing. It is planned to teach in average 10 youngsters per one program.\n\nAs a result, during first project period there were  organised two 10-days training programs - one in Latvia and one - in Estonia and in total trained 19 young people. \nTo reach this result, many meetings between Partners were held, a lot of time and energy was devoted to training program elaboration, project communication and target audience attraction and selection, to materials procurement and woodworking premises arrangement.\n\nFirst training programs turned out to be very succesful and young people interest and motivation was high. To share info on project idea, young people success and project results to wider public there was decided to make video overview and organise publicity event on first training program closure in Latvia on August 25, 2023.\n\nTo training program closure publicity event were invited and floor was given to\n* State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Latvia\n* Development Department Manager of Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” \n* General Director of Employers'Confederation of Latvia (LDDK) \n* Chairman of Board of Latvia Carpenters Association by Latvian Chamber of Crafts\n* Vice-chairman of the city Jurmala\n* Chairman of Bulduri Technical School\n* Representative of Central Baltic programme National Contact Point (Latvia)\n \nVideo review on first training in timber framing 14-25.08.2023 and project publicity event  25.08.2023 in Bulduri, Latvia here:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXMZi2AcHhU\n\n\nAs a result, project even got two national TV attention:\n\nTV3:\nhttps://play.tv3.lv/embed-video/bulduros-atdzimst-tradicionalo-koka-buvju-darinasanas-prasmju-nodosana,clip-6016966?autoplay=true&muted=true&fbclid=IwAR3bnmzIpZLyhc8UYbhlq1eCwhPYtRCQMvPUmo-lSY_TMIJctL-Ao7XL7vk\n\nReTV (regional TV)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r88xCLfn5hw\nDuring 1st first project period one training workshop for target group was organized in each country:\nin Estonia - July 17-28 in Vanaajamaja Mooste (9 young people trained)\nin Latvia - August 14-25 in Bulduri, Jurmala (10 young people trained)\n\nDuring 2nd period:\nin Estonia - 2 trainings: 04-15.12.2023 ( 11 young people trained) and 11-22.03.2024 (8 young people trained)\nin Latvia - 1 training: 23.10-03.11.2023 (11 young people trained)\n\nThus in total 5 out of 8 training programs are realised till the end of 2nd period and 49 young people trained\n\nSummarising\n\n1) There is big interest about timber framing skills. Thanks to program totally new opportunity  to test each own abilities and improve competitiveness is provided ! E.g., in Latvia till now there were no educational possibilities to acquire skills and understanding of traditional woodworking and carpentry. \n2) Although advertising was targeted to young people, interest and applications was received from representatives of all the ages\n3) Potential participants interest and demand for skills acquisition  is greater then planned project scope - at least at the moment of Period 2\n4) Young people are ready to be involved in full-day training program also during summer; this is suprising and confirms project idea up-to-dateness\n5) There is larger interest for building timber frames of more complicated constructions,e.g., pergola build during 2nd workshop in Latvia, according participants view, was too easy.This fact serves as participants motivation evidence\n6) Chosen advertising strategy in target audience attraction via social media and partners networks proved to be succesful\n7) To strenthen participants motivation, it is advisable to sign contracts for participation including  financial responsibility , e.g., participation is free of charge only by 100% attendance\n8) Simultaneous presence of both- native and english speaking teachers is additional bonus increasing competence applying terminology in english language \n\n9) Rather challenging is to set training time for each next workshop as there is limited number of available masters (teachers) in Latvia as well as Estonia and they all are rather busy. Especially as workshops are held in both countries, with participation of masters from both Latvia and Estonia\n\n10) Missing knowledge of \n*methodology and \n*availability of educational materials in training organisation, as well as \n*wider target audience attraction. \nMore advanced external experts presence would be appreciated. There is started communication with experienced NGOs from Romania  and  planned study visit in April 2024.\n\n11) There is started work on educational material development and content draft is created. External experts from industry and/or educational sector to improve content quality and methodology would be valuable. New experts - local or foreign attraction is in process ","Jurmala, Jūrmala, Mooste, Põlva county","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Procurements from large international NGOs, like the United Nations, and other international donors, form a 20-billion-dollar annual market. The Central Baltic countries, however, are underrepresented. With the right activities this untapped potential can be harnessed for the benefit of SMEs to do more business with these organizations.\n\nThere is heavy global competition for the acquisitions these NGOs make, and the procurement processes can take a long time. The opportunities provided by the NGO markets is not very well known. The project sees that the SMEs need information how to access the tenders, training how to bid, help in forming consortia, and taken to international events to present their solutions to the INGOs so that they in turn can include these new technologies in their tenders.\n\nCross-border co-operation is of key importance for the project. The INGOs have strict rules regarding neutrality and meeting companies. Jointly, the Central Baltic areas present in the project will form a large enough entity for the INGOs to be involved with, especially with the help of national authorities.\n\nKey output will be SMEs entering these processes and 4-8 achieving sales/contracts.\n\nThis will be achieved via activities in following Work Packages:\n\nWP1 – Joint awareness rising and coaching\nWorkshops to educate SMEs on the processes as well facilitate meeting with INGOs. 2-3 SME will achieve sales via entering INGO bids.\n\nWP2 – INGOs' innovation programmes, consortia building, and travel to INGOs' events\nFacilitating deeper cooperation of SMEs & INGOs. There are three areas of activities in this WP: A) innovation programs run by INGOs’ for startups and SMEs; and B) building joint cross-border consortia C) Travel to INGO events.\nThe project will facilitate deeper participation of SMEs, via INGOs' innovation programmes, consortia building, and travel to INGOs' international events, that will result in sales for 3-6 companies.","2023-04-01","2026-09-30","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1792992.96,"ERDF",1434394.34,80,"The initial focus of the project during period 1 was to get things rolling smoothly. This included setting up all project management practices as well as managing all the agreements (Subsidy contract, Partnership agreement) communication practices and materials and other responsibilities mandated by the programme and are a requisite for the successful implementation of the project.\n\nThe project held an internal in-person kick off in April (with one partner attending online) to set-up proper project practices. This includes setting up a shared online space (Teams), scheduling biweekly project meetings, setting up communication practices, and shared marketing materials. Project website, provided by the programme, was set up.\n\nLead Partner informed the project consortium of the implementation guide and programme communication guidelines and arranged a meeting with CB programme officer. With the help of all partners, Lead Partner set up project steering group and arranged the first, constitutive meeting online. Project consortium attended all CB programme information events. \n\nRegarding implementing the project activities, the project started by activating their national and international networks regarding the international NGOs, inter-governmental and other organisations as well as developing new contacts. At the beginning of the project, PP4 attended the EU-UN procurement event and based on that provided the consortium with an extensive update on the UN procurement system and processes. All partners also shared information about the project in their own channels to start informing SMEs about the activities and opportunities on offer.\n\nThe INGO field is extensive and there is a huge number of potential organisations. The project has made initial selection regarding which organisations to target based on these initial discussions/information gathering. This will be reflected in the organisations represented in the local awareness events, but not limited to them. This work further continues in period 2, with the project further focusing on a more active involvement with chosen organisations. The project has learned that working with these large organisations can be quite time consuming and bureaucratic. Communication can be slow at times and the value of creating personal contacts cannot be overstated. This takes time and will continue throughout the project.\n\nAs stated in the workplan, the project will arrange local awareness events. For this, an online workshop was held to create a shared framework for local awareness events. PP3 Miro board online tool was used to brainstorm the concept. The work was then continued in biweekly project meetings. This shared framework has then been the basis for the preparatory work on the local awareness events.\n\nPP3 and PP4 had their local awareness events already during period 1, the rest of the project partners will have theirs during the first half of period 2. The aim of these events is to spread the word about the INGO market project as well as the activities and opportunities the project provides. The events will be used to onboard SMEs to future project activities, the aim being to have a pool of interested SMEs being routinely informed about opportunities in international NGOs.\n\nLed be PP2, the project has engaged the Common Procurement Activities Group (CPAG), a voluntary inter-agency procurement network composed of Geneva-based UN entities and international organizations. The project has started preparations, led by PP2, for taking a company mission to meet CPAG in Geneva during period 2. The preparations have already started in period 1. This is an invaluable opportunity to follow up the awareness raising events with concrete actions for the interested SMEs.\n\nPP1 has also engaged a consortium of SMEs that seeks to introduce a new type of hospital ship concept to the target markets.  There are opportunities to help the consortium in joint marketing efforts as well as engaging potential clients. This work has started and will continue during period 2.\n\nPP4  participated in state visit to Ghana and Benin organized by Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This participation provided significant knowledge on the practical part of activities and financial support provided to African countries by international NGOs. It ensured with essential insights, useful information and valuable contacts related to the needs of African countries and procurement implementation process.\nDuring period 2, the project ramped up its activities towards SMEs. All partners who hadn’t already arranged their local awareness events during period 1, did so during the beginning of period 2 (Oct-Nov). The awareness events were arranged according to the framework created in period 1 and were streamed online for cross-border visibility. The materials from these events were also shared on the project website as well as in the project LinkedIN group.\n\n3rd of October 2023, the local awareness event took place in Tallinn, Estonia. It was a hybrid event so that also SMEs from other partner countries could take part. The event was recorded and available for reviewing and has been actively shared to new SMEs on-boarded to the project activities.\n\nBusiness Turku arranged its local awareness event on November 1st. Turku also arranged two other information events on more specific opportunities. The awareness event had 41 attendees, the other events 81 and 30. The participants were contacted about several different follow-up activities.\n\nRISE arranged its local awareness event in late November. The event was recorded and published on the INGOs website. Discussions with interested companies about specific needs and their priority topics has been done continuously during the period. Among Swedish companies, interest is currently greatest in energy systems, water treatment, food production and IT applications.\n\nThe local awareness events were followed-up by the main effort of this period - UNOG and INGO procurement seminar and business mission to Geneva that took place in 5-7 February 2024. 22 SMEs attended (6 from Estonia, 7 from Latvia, 9 from Finland, and Swedish companies represented by RISE). The SMEs had around 70 1-to-1 matchmaking meetings with UN organisations and Red Cross. Several SMEs have already had follow-up meetings and the project will keep monitoring and offering support to these cases. After the visit follow-up meetings were held with participating SMEs and also written feedback was asked, which in general was very positive.\nThe SMEs were coached for the business mission in a preparatory workshop how to operate with INGOs, how to effectively pitch their offering and how their procurement systems work. The workshop received very good feedback from the SMEs.\n\nAdditionally, the partners continued to reach out to different stakeholders, networks and target NGOs. As part of these activities Turku and Tampere visited a high-level UN procurement seminar in Copenhagen (UN procurement hub). This event resulted in direct contacts with important UN organisations like Unicef.\nAt the beginning of 2024, Business Tampere launched a new funding advisory service: “Trade and Development Aid Funding Helpdesk” available online through Business Tampere pages. Purpose is to meet SMEs 1to1, go through their product/service and help them first to map out suitable funding sources among UN entities, Development Banks or other global NGOs, and secondly support of being active in these domains by matching them with upcoming procurements.\n\nLatvian IT Cluster visited AmCham (13.11., Egypt) where they shared information about LITC and INGOs project. LITC also arranged face-to-face event with representatives from JGH Group (Denmark, specializes in competing in UN procurement) (05.12.2023, Riga); and face-to-face event where Latvian companies met official representatives of Zimbabwe (07.03.2024, Riga).\n\nWith consortium building, Business Turku supported Modular Hospital Ship consortium in their marketing messaging. A marketing brochure was created in English and Spanish. Creation of this material and its subsequent use resulted in the project arranging 11 meetings with potential customer organisations, or organisations that could promote the hospital ship to potential clients.\nRISE has taken the lead in organizing a face-to-face meeting in October 2024 in Stockholm. Possibility of match-making, 1to1 meetings as well as round table meetings for consortium building are planned. RISE is also planning a training in three stages during period 3.\n\nThe project initiated talks about having a stand for SMEs at the AidEx event in October 2024.\n\nThe project had the 2nd steering group meeting. Weekly project meetings continued. In-person project meeting was held in Tallinn on 3rd October. The project also had an internal online workshop planning 2023-24 activities.\n\nRegarding communication activities, the project continued to provide information via the project website, including recordings of local awareness events. The project created a LinkedIN group for SMEs. The project created two podcasts about the INGO market to promote the local awareness event as well as the project. Business Tampere started to work on video series “Introducing UN organization” which are all in English and available online. Based on understanding of UN by this far, Tampere also published a short handbook introducing UN entities. The handbook is also available online.","Tampere, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Turku","FI, LV, SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},6]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Agriculture is one of the sectors that will be affected by climate change, and still is the main contributor to eutrophication in Europe. To face these challenges the BSR needs to adopt circular solutions that allow saving of water and fertilizers, prevent nutrients emissions in the environment and allow the integration of food production systems in the cities, for a more resilient urban environment. \n\nIn this perspective the TransFarm project fosters the spread of circular and soil-less methods, such as aquaponics, a farming method where fish and vegetables are grown in symbiosis. The project adopts a holistic approach that works across the three dimensions of sustainability to build a more resilient food system. Bringing circular food production in the city and growing all year round both vegetables and fish will contribute to a reduced environmental impact, will improve the access to healthy food and will create new jobs. \n\nTransFarm project has the unique approach of bringing improvement in the food system chain by leveraging training and demonstration activities. The project demonstrates such systems in three of the participating countries: Sweden, Estonia and Latvia. Demonstration sites will be platforms for experience exchange and technological know-how transfer to different stakeholders in BSR countries. This, together with the training provided to a selected group of stakeholders, a free access internet platform and seminars raise the awareness of consumers and producers in usage of such food systems. Project activities will promote innovations in natural resources and societal challenges. This holistic approach can be developed through collaborative learning that involves stakeholders in an early stage of the project and by exchanging knowledge across borders of BSR.\n\nProject total budget = 1.869 tEur. Budget per partner as follows:\nUTU: 223 tEur\nUCV: 705 tEur\nLU: 316 tEur\nEULS: 457 tEur\nCRN: 168 tEur","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","075 Support to environmentally-friendly production processes and resource efficiency in SMEs","N",1868642.79,"ERDF",1494914.2,80,"*LP: During the first reporting period P1, the TransFarm project has been started by finalizing the contracts (Subsidy contract and Partnership agreement) required for getting the project up and running. Also a kick-off event has been organized on May 29th-30th in Turku Finland, where the Lead Partner University of Turku is located. At the same time, a press release has been formed and published, together with updating the project info on the web space provided by the Central Baltic programme and on the project partners own web pages. Official project partner meetings were held on March 28th, on May 3rd and on July 7th. Steering group meetings were held on May 10th and on August 22nd 2023. Meeting documentation can be found in annexes of this progress report. These were the main managerial and communication highlights of TransFarm project during the first reporting period from March to August 2023. \n\n*Project partners in Estonia, in Latvia and in Sweden have started implementing the TransFarm project's work plan, mostly activities of Work Packages #1, #2 and #3. \n\nPP#2: Campus Roslagen/UCV has started working with activity A1.1, Mapping of the regulatory framework, which will provide information about the permit processes in the participating countries. This work has been done quite smoothly in Sweden and in Finland, but requires more efforts in Estonia and in Latvia, where local project partners will supports this work. Activity A1.1 will be completed by the end of reporting period P2. Campus Roslagen/UCV has also worked with WP#2 and started the planning work of their demos. Some purchases and improvements were already made during the first reporting period. \n\nPP#3: University of Latvia/LU has started to work with WP#3 and activity A3.1 the Stakeholder survey. They have also started to work with activity A3.2 - Aquaponics water quality and requirements. LU has mostly started this work after summer holidays in August 2023, and they have focused mostly on desk research with relevant literature. \n\nPP#4: Estonian University of Life Science has also started working with planning of their demo (Activity A2.5) in WP#2. Some minor purchases of components has already been done during the first reporting period, but the whole Aquaponic demo system will be completed later. \n\nPP#5: Coompanion Roslagen & Norrort has worked together with PP#2 Campus Roslagen on activity A1.1 Mapping the regulatory framework. They have also started working with their own activities in WP#1 - A1.2 Business Models and A1.3 Economic toolkit. \n*LP: During the second reporting period, the TransFarm project has collected good speed and has progressed well. LP has organized official online project partner meetings on October 13th and on December 1st 2023. A face-to-face event and joint project meetings were held on January 23rd 2024 in Norrtälje, Sweden. Compiled meeting documentations can be found in annexes of this second progress report. In addition to this, an official modification  process has been started during the second reporting period. Reason for this modification is that PP#2 Campus Roslagen Ab aims to sell their Vattencentrum organization to Norrtälje Vatten och Avfall Ab. Modification is aimed to be completed during the third reporting period. On February 27th 2024, LP UTU has provided guiding for project partners in reporting and using the Jems system. \n\nProject communication activities have included updating of project web space located on the web pages of the Central Baltic program, and live presentations given by project partners in Sweden and in Latvia. Also a project brochure was produced by LP UTU during the second reporting period. A print run on 1000 pieces was ordered and shared among project partners. In addition, Campus Roslagen (UCV) has produced and ordered a roll-up to be used in exhibitions and in their premises. UCV has shared the roll-up document to other partners, so that they can order such if needed. For communication purposes, lot's of photos were taken during reporting period P2. A compilation of best shots can be found in annexes. These were the main managerial and communication highlights of TransFarm project during the second reporting period from September 2023 to February 2024. \n\n*Project partners in Estonia, in Latvia and in Sweden have continued implementing the TransFarm project's work plan, concerning to activities of Work Packages #1, #2 and #3. \n\nPP#2: Campus Roslagen/UCV has completed their work with activity A1.1, Mapping of the regulatory framework, which provides information about the permit processes in the participating countries. Campus Roslagen/UCV has also worked with WP#2 and constructed their first demo, and they have also constructed a smaller demo for a local elementary school. \n\nPP#3: University of Latvia/LU has continued to work with WP#3 and it's activity A3.1 the Stakeholder survey. This work has caused some challenges because it has been difficult to find people to answer to the survey. LU has also worked with activity A3.2 - Aquaponics water quality and requirements. This work has been completed and the water quality report has been published on TransFarm web space in several languages. LU has also worked with planning of their Aquaponic demo, finding out what kind of demo system would be most suitable for their premises.\n\nPP#4: Estonian University of Life Science (EULS) has worked actively with A2.5 Design & construction of demo’s in Estonia and A2.6 Demo testing & monitoring in Estonia, both activities of WP#2. After constructing the demo, EULS has acquired their fish fry and they are growing them to work as nutrient source for EULS Aquaponic system. \n\nPP#5: Coompanion Roslagen & Norrort has worked together with PP#2 Campus Roslagen on activity A1.1 Mapping the regulatory framework. They have also started working with their own activities in WP#1 - A1.2 Business Models, A1.3 Economic toolkit and A1.4 Organisational Set up Design. CRN has been very active and supportive in helping other project partners in their work, and they have also been very active in communicating about the TransFarm project to public audiences in Sweden. ","Riga, Norrtälje, Tartu, Turku","LV, SE, EE, FI",null,"Sverige (SE), Norrtälje, Kaserngatan, 11, 76146\nLatvija (LV), Riga, Jelgavas Street, 1, LV-1004\nEesti (EE), Tartu, Fr.R.Kreutzwaldi, 56/5 - 40 , 51006\n",null,null,null,6]
["CB0400223","Women Go Tech","All over the EU, the average amount of women occupied in the IT and Tech sector is below 25%. At the same time, most of the employees in the low-paid sectors (such as services, hospitality, and social spheres) are women. This reflects also in the gender pay gap, which is the biggest in Estonia and Latvia (21,1 and 22,3, Eurostat, 2020). At the same time, the IT industry, especially programming, is one of the best-paid fields of work. \nIn Estonia, the average salary of a programmer is typically between 14 724-36 500 a year (Palgad.ee), whereas the average salary is 20 000 (Statistikaamet.ee), and the average salary in services is lower than the country's average ranging from 6900-18 360 (Palgad.ee). In Latvia the average salary of a programmer is typically between 11'832 - 38'172 EUR a year (https://www.algas.lv/), the average salary is 25'000 EUR a year (algas.lv). \nWhile IT and programming have on average higher salaries, it is also proven that women face many barriers entering the IT sector - mainly financial barriers and the need to work and take care of household responsibilities, which significantly reduces their flexibility and ability to take part in traditional IT focused education. Another barrier is the lack of role models and generally lower self-esteem regards STEM topics (Kantar Emor, 2021).\nThe current program will allow 200 women (100 from Estonia and 100 from Latvia) to start their careers in IT by providing them with a flexible and free opportunity to study programming. The previous experience by all three partner organizations has shown that even with a one-year short, but intensive program it is possible to start a career in IT as a junior programmer, which allows continuing on the career ladder after the program. On top of IT skills, the current program will increase learners' awareness of different career possibilities in IT and within the field of programming and also soft skills and learners' general self-esteem, which supports making the career shift. An essential part of the program is an internship or additional learning, which will bridge the gap between our program and a potential job. \nThe project budget is 213 000 Euros, and addressing the issue with a cross-border collaboration allows making the program more cost-efficient (by organizing joint training) as well as sharing best practices between institutions. Also, there are many ban-Baltic IT organizations, and a joint program enables the creation of job opportunities and further collaboration and innovation ideas across borders.","2023-11-01","2025-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",213144.4,"ERDF",170515.52,80,"The first six months of the program were mainly intended for preparation, selection of learners, organizing the tender to find the IT trainer, selection of the IT trainer, organizing a physical meeting to allow participants to get to know each other better, and selecting members of the steering group. \n\nRecruitment of Learners:\n\nThe application period for learners began in January and lasted two weeks, attracting 693 applications. From these, 350 applicants progressed to an extended application process that included two informational webinars and a home assignment. Following this phase, 308 applicants remained, out of whom 220 were ultimately selected to participate in the program (divided 50/50 between Estonian and Latvian residents).\n\nThe learner demographics for the program reveal a diverse group, with participants from various professional backgrounds, including human resources, construction, services, and creative industries. Predominantly, these learners possess little to no IT background, reflecting the program's inclusivity and reach. Geographically, the participants are drawn from different regions across Estonia and Latvia, adding to the diversity of the group.\nAge-wise, the learners represent a broad spectrum, with the largest cohort being those aged 26-35. However, the program also successfully engages older participants, including a noticeable group within the 56-65 age bracket. This diversity in age and professional background enriches the learning environment, fostering a unique blend of perspectives and experiences in the IT training program. All selected participants represented vulnerable groups, for example unemployed, women, who have stayed at home with kids for a long time, etc.\n\nIT Trainer Selection:\n\nA call for proposals to find an IT trainer was issued at the beginning of the year, targeting six organizations—three from Estonia and three from Latvia. This initiative received three applications, one of which did not meet the technical requirements. The remaining two applications were evaluated by an expert committee consisting of one representative from the coordinator, one representative from the partner organization, and one external expert from Accenture Baltics.  selected trainer (SIA International Tution Centre) boasted significant experience in providing online programming training to women without prior IT backgrounds.\n\nThe IT training program, conducted online from March 20 to October 5, is structured to occur on Wednesdays and Thursdays (from 18.00-20.00), and Saturdays (from 10-13.00). It includes scheduled breaks from June 16-29 and July 17-27. The curriculum covers major IT topics—Python, Java, DevOps, and AI—which are taught concurrently through a blend of theoretical sessions, individual assignments, and collaborative group work.\n\nTo facilitate this comprehensive training, various digital platforms such as Zoom, Discord, and Moodle are employed, among others, to deliver content and encourage interaction. The program also includes regular tests to assess participant progress and comprehension. For those who may find the pace challenging, additional sessions are provided to help them catch up, ensuring all learners can achieve the intended learning outcomes effectively.\n\nPhysical Networking Event:\n\nNetworking events were held on 26.04 in Tallinn and Riga featuring inspirational speakers and providing opportunities for participants to meet trainers and program facilitators. The events aimed to facilitate networking and personal connections among attendees. They received very positive feedback, with each event drawing over 75 participants.\n\nSteering group:\n\nThe steering group consists of two members: Karl Andreas Sprenk (Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs) and Zanda Arnava (Accenture). The first steering group meeting was held on 24.04.2024.\n\nImplementing a programming course across borders (Latvia and Estonia) has offered several benefits: \n\n1)\tCultural Exchange and Diversity: Participants from different countries bring diverse cultural perspectives and experiences, enriching the learning environment. \n2)\tBroader Networking Opportunities: A cross-border program expands networking possibilities for participants, allowing them to connect with a wider array of industry professionals and peers. These connections can lead to collaborative opportunities, mentorship, and even career advancements across borders.\n3)\tResource Optimization: By pooling resources from multiple countries, the program leverages strengths from each region, such as expert instructors or methodological approaches, enhancing the quality of education provided.\n4)\tIncreased Marketability of Graduates: Graduates from a cross-border program may be seen as more adaptable and globally competent, traits highly valued in the global job market. They are likely to have developed skills that enable them to work effectively in diverse teams and environments.\n","Riga, Tallinn","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100047","Entrepreneurship Simulation Program for Silver Economy in Central Baltic","Silver Entrepreneurs project is a 30-month adult education and entrepreneurship-building initiative designed to empower and equip silver age persons (60+) with skills and confidence to develop their entrepreneurship projects and thus, remain socially and economically active. Eurostat data say people live longer, longer stay healthy and want to work longer. At the same time, Central Baltic (CB) region countries face the challenges of ageing workforce and outdated skills while not fully using seniors economic potential. Silver age persons have professional knowledge, skills and experience in many areas, but they need to upgrade and acquire new skills. Entrepreneurship requires a complex set of skills. To address these cross-border challenges, our project will implement a complex entrepreneurship simulation program with individual approach to each participant consisting of:\n- training workshops and coaching for entrepreneurship skills, confidence and creativity, entrepreneurship simulations to develop collaborative and individual projects; benchmarking activities with small enterprises in CB region, practical consultations, senior-to-senior expertise.\nProject will achieve such results and outputs:\n- 80 silver age persons of CB region have completed a complex program of Smart Seniors Academy for Entrepreneurship (40 from LV, 20 from FI, 20 from SE);\n- joint CB entrepreneurship training program (simulations) and materials;\n- individual and collaborative entrepreneurship projects with implementation potential;\n- involving at least 50 other organizations in project activities (benchmarking, promotion) \nThe outputs will serve the benefit of seniors in CB countries, partner organizations, training and business support organizations, national/ local authorities authorities committed to promote entrepreneurship; employment, quality of life, CB region economy. Budget TOTAL: 878206,40 EUR; LCCI 178427,60 EUR; LAEA 164287,60 EUR; FU Uppsala 301651,60 EUR; TAMK: 233839,60 EUR","2023-04-01","2025-09-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",790071.9,"ERDF",632057.52,80,"The Silver Entrepreneurs project is progressing smoothly, and we are pleased with the developments so far. Our team is comprising of different professionals from our partner organizations, and collaborating effectively, bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the forefront.\nWe are using Microsoft Teams for project management and communication, complemented by consistent email correspondence and regular online meetings. This approach ensures that all team members are well-informed and actively engaged in the project.\nThe project's steering group has been formed and has shown considerable enthusiasm and interest, which reinforces the importance of our work. Their support is instrumental in guiding our efforts to address the needs of individuals nearing retirement or already retired.\nIn terms of project activities, the diverse expertise within our team is one of the key strengths. Our initial focus has been on thorough research, establishing a robust foundation for the upcoming phases of the project. This early research as well as the team building is critical for the project’s future success and anticipated results and it has been successfully completed. \nThe primary objective of Silver Entrepreneurs is to empower those approaching or at retirement age to venture into entrepreneurship. We aim to foster a supportive environment that nurtures their entrepreneurial aspirations, contributing positively to their personal development, social aspects and the broader economy. This initiative seeks to redefine retirement as an opportunity for new beginnings, innovation, and personal growth."," Tampere , Riga, Uppsala","FI, LV, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0500264","Creative Youth Cross-Border Tartu-Tampere Entrepreneurship Training Bridge","Creative Bridge is an ambitious initiative aimed at empowering creative young individuals, particularly those aged 18-25, within more distant rural areas in South Estonia and Central Finland. With the training programme, that focuses on business development in the creative industry, we increase the essential skills and knowledge of young people, which are required for entering the creative labour market.\n\nIn the European Union and Nordic countries, a common challenge faced by young people is the lack of relevant work experience, limited employment opportunities and skills mismatches. The problem with unemployment is particularly acute in less competitive regions, such as South Estonia and rural areas in Finland. In these areas many young individuals possess a wealth of talent and educational capital in the creative fields, generating high-value design, fashion, accessories and other creative industry products as side income or mere interest. However, these creative individuals struggle to transform this passion into sustainable and durable business. \n\nCreative Bridge has a firm aim to seek a solution for this problem. The project will establish inspiring new models and methods that will guide this less competitive youth group to turn their creativity into viable businesses that will be built upon green and circular business models. The project educates how to access the local market by keeping in mind the more ambitious aim: scaling the business for the international markets. This will be achieved by providing the trainees with tools and knowledge of how to participate in international business events, fairs, and design shows; in addition with building international networks.\n\nKey aspects of the Creative Bridge -project include:\n\n1. \tEntrepreneurial Mindset: Through inspiration, networking, and mentorship by experienced design leaders and entrepreneurs, we foster the entrepreneurial mindset within our target group: creative young (Gen Z) individuals.\n\n2. \tBusiness Model Development: Through the Business Model Training program we assist participants in developing, iterating or redesigning their company business models and enhancing their presentation and communication skills.\n\n3. \tGreen Design: Through Sustainable and Circular economy models and examples we will educate the young generation as green designers, promoting a new way of thinking that is aligned with four pillars of sustainability, including human, social, economic and environmental aspects.\n\nThe cross-border cooperation with Tartu and Tampere is central to our project, enabling creative young people to acquire entrepreneurial skills that will make them more competitive in the international labour market. \n\nWhat sets our project apart are the three key aspects – Entrepreneurial Mindset, Business Model Development and Green Design – that are carefully crafted to call for the specific employment prospect in the Creative Industry. The ambition of the project is the act of becoming international and green design thinking. The gap has been identified in the lack of knowledge sharing about sustainable and circular business models. By reconsidering the entire value chain, the Creative Bridge -project will embed this line of thinking to the creative young designers of tomorrow. \n\nThe creative industry is a vital economic contributor in modern Western culture with the potential to drive economic growth. Creative Bridge is dedicated to unlocking the potential of newcomers and young talent – especially in the less competitive regions of Tartu and Tampere – by introducing them with entrepreneurial and sustainable opportunities.","2024-06-01","2025-07-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",211816.12,"ERDF",169452.89,80,"Enhancing target group entrepreneurial skills, building personal entrepreneurship and business capacity in the participants of the project. The target group will increase competitiveness in the creative industry business and gain a certificate that provides the completion of the training program.\nEnhancing the entrepreneurial skills of the target group, fostering the development of personal entrepreneurship, and building business capacity among the project participants. The target group will improve their competitiveness in the business world and attain a certificate upon successful completion of the training program.","Tampere, Tartu","FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0400224","Expertise from Experience - training users to become experts in web accessibility","Persons with disabilities have fewer opportunities on the employment market. Difficulties to find a suitable job are even higher in remote locations such as the archipelago that have a smaller employment market and challenges related to transportation. At the same time, public authorities in both Åland and the Stockholm region are struggling to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure that their websites and apps are accessible to everyone including persons with disabilities. The project will increase the employment possibilities for persons with disabilities in Åland and the Stockholm region by developing and implementing a novel training program that will provide persons with disabilities key skills needed to support public authorities in their work with web accessibility in both of the regions involved in the project. The key concept of the training program is that the persons with disabilities will build on their own personal experience of inaccessibility to develop expertise in web accessibility that is highly sought-after by public authorities. The cross-border cooperation between the two project partners stem from the necessity to develop a harmonised approach to the training so that it leads to common qualifications across the two regions of Stockholm region and Åland, enabling the persons with disabilities trained in the project to use their newly gained skills on the employment market in both countries. Since the web accessibility legislation is the same in the whole of the EU, there is also great potential to transfer the model of the training, the knowledge and the outputs produced to other parts of the EU.\n\nThe main output of the project is that 15 persons with disabilities from Åland and the Stockholm archipelago will have been trained to become user experts in web accessibility. The participants will also put their knowledge into practice through an assignment in collaboration with the Government of Åland and municipalities in the Stockholm archipelago. The training programme, including the curriculum and materials will be sustained by the two partner organisations for further use after the project to train more user experts. The project will both be beneficial to the persons’ with disabilities who increase their competitiveness on the employment market, and to public authorities that gain access to specialized expertise that is difficult and expensive to find through other means.\n\nThe approach of the project is novel in that it focuses on empowering persons with disabilities to use their own personal experiences to develop skills that are sought after on the employment market in both of the regions involved. In addition, the training will lead to opportunities within a type of work that is highly suitable to be carried out online, which is especially beneficial for people with motor or visual disabilities who may experience difficulties in travel, and furthermore very relevant for Åland, with its transportation challenges in the archipelago.","2023-11-01","2025-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",211116.32,"ERDF",168893.05,80,"Throughout the first half of the project, Funktionsrätt Åland and Stiftelsen Funka have collaborated seamlessly on two main activities: joint preparation of trainings and awareness-raising initiatives. Regular online meetings between the partners have facilitated open discussions on all aspects of the project. Both organizations have shared documents in our joint Teams channel. \n\nTo ensure effective outreach, we developed a comprehensive communication plan. We have also created a curriculum for the course, began preparing training materials  and increased awareness. During the spring we focused on informing individuals in our regions about the training and recruiting students . \n\nBoth partners concentrated on communication and student recruitment in their respective geographical areas,  have actively engaged in awareness-raising activities and involved stakeholders in the project. Our joint efforts have successfully engaged potential students and policymakers in both regions. The awareness-raising activities in the project have engaged all three primary target groups: local authorities, regional authorities  and individuals with disabilities. The project partners have engaged disability organizations within the civil society to assist in spreading awareness among their members about web accessibility and the project. \n\nWe have used various communication channels to spread information about the project and organized successful  meetings and webinars. These sessions have informed organizations for individuals with disabilities and other stakeholders about the project's objectives and course details. Both organizations’  strong contacts with both the grass root disability movements and the local authorities have helped in the implementation of the project.  \n","Åkersberga, Mariehamn","SE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","The “Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator” (Baltic Impact Accelerator) tackles the challenges of new growth companies in the CB region by utilizing the Triple Bottom Line (3BL) methodology that enables more growth (Profit) with specific consideration towards environment (Planet) and society (People). As a result, the scaling-up of companies is tackled in three levels: Profit, Planet, People.\n\nOver the period of 36 months, the project will implement an accelerator programme, that:\n\n1.Develops new business models with focus on 3BL\n\n2.Helps to establish presence outside home markets\n\n3.Supports to raise investments for accelerated growth and\n\n4.Nurtures consortiums and partnerships among companies\nWithin the three acceleration cohorts a total of 96 scale-up companies will be supported (32 per cohort) and out of these 96 companies, 48 will scale up. The project will implement open seminars and events, where a broader audience of companies is reached and upskilled in order to provide knowledge about the 3BL methodology. The project provides unique acceleration for scale-up companies both from the 3BL methodology perspective, as well as the regional set-up: scale-up companies are specifically scaled in another CB country in order to help the companies to establish a better presence outside their home market. \n\nThe “Baltic Impact Accelerator” project will achieve the following results:\n-At least 720 (unique) companies reached\n-At least 480 (unique)company applications received\n-3 cohorts implemented with 32 companies per cohort\n-480 individual trainings within the project provided to companies\n-3 joint cross-border collaboration events (1 per cohort)\n-3 demo-day events (online) - 1 per cohort\n\nThe total project budget is 1 976 082,83 EUR with an Interreg Central Baltic Programme contribution of 1 580 866,24 EUR, which is allocated among the five project partners implementing the project.","2023-04-01","2026-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",1968033.23,"ERDF",1574426.56,80,"The main task of the first reporting period was to create a clear vision of what our acceleration program will be and to define what our target startups will be. In addition, during this reporting period, we started work on the development of our accelerator methodology and the development of the platform. Since all project activities will be based on this methodology, all partners were involved in this task. The final version of our methodology will be published in the next reporting period.\nDuring this reporting period, we created project publicity guidelines and started project communication. Information about the project was published in all partner homepages and in project website: https://centralbaltic.eu/project/baltic-impact-accelerator/\nDuring the recent reporting period, the partners involved in the Baltic Impact Accelerator (BIA) program collectively worked on several key initiatives to promote and implement the acceleration program. Their efforts focused on outreach, participant selection, program development, and communication.\nDuring this reporting period all partners  focused on developing the accelerator methodology, including crafting a comprehensive handbook emphasizing Triple Bottom Line (3BL) principles. We worked on the development of our digital platform to provide a self-service opportunities for participating companies, offering access to various services and training programs what we will offer in our accelerator program. \nThroughout the period, the partners emphasized the development and refinement of the acceleration concept, aligning the digital platform with the established methodology. This included procuring training modules, organizing seminars, and actively engaging with stakeholders through communication channels.\nAll partners successfully informed companies about the opportunity to apply for the acceleration program, resulting in 109 applications from all four countries, 34 from Latvia, 14 from Estonia, 39 from Sweden and 23 from Finland. After evaluating all the companies, we concluded that all submitted applications are really high-quality, but since we could accept only 8 companies from country in the program, we invited all those who were not accepted in this round to apply for the next selection. In total, 30 companies (8 from LV, 6 form EST, 8 from SE and 8 form FI)  were accepted in the first cycle, but unfortunately two companies decided not to continue the program and withdrew already in March.\nAfter selecting the companies, we start the first accelerator cycle with the first events at the end of January. We not only organized informative seminars on program activities, but also on the topic \"Triple bottom line methodology\".\nAll partners also played a crucial role in evaluating applications and  coordinating trainers and participants. All partners maintained proactive communication through social media to engage the business community and support participants. ","Riga, Liepaja, Lappeenranta, Uppsala County, Rae vald Harjumaa","LV, FI, SE, EE",{"$nulls":5},5]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","Although nutrient load from land-based sources to the Baltic Sea has reduced significantly, good ecological status of the coastal waters has not been reached, partly due to land-based load, and partly because of internal loading from the bottom sediments. The BalticReed Project will uptake nutrients from the Baltic Sea, improve water quality and restore the coastal habitats by harvesting dense reed beds, and, in addition, recycle the reed biomass and nutrients to be utilized on land.\n\nHarvesting of coastal reed beds can cost-efficiently remove significant amounts of nutrients from coastal waters, as one ha reed bed contains approx. 5-10kg of P and 50-100 kg N. It has been estimated that in Sweden and Finland there are over 300 000 ha coastal reed beds, and the estimated cost per reduction has been estimated being approx. 30 - 60 €/kgP and 2,1- 3,75 €/kgN, based on previous local level pilots. Concrete nutrient reductions and habitat improvements will be achieved with reed harvesting and habitat restoration pilots in Finland, Åland and Sweden.\n\nIn addition, in collaboration with commercial stakeholders of the region, the BalticReed project will analyze the main bottlenecks and opportunities for commercialization of reed-based value chains and products, learn from operating reed-based markets in Estonia, and pilot reed-based products and value-chains during the project. At the same time, legislative, social, and ecological sustainability of reed harvesting will be ensured. The project will consult and engage key local and environmental stakeholders and coastal inhabitants for establishing region-wide terms and practices for constant and sustainable, reed-based annual nutrient reductions. \n\nThe Project Budget is approx. 3 MEUR, and the partneship includes John Nurminen Foundation (LP), Race For The Baltic, Åland Goverment, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Östergötland County Administrative Board and the ELY Centre for Southwest Finland.","2023-05-01","2026-04-30","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",2992145.2,"ERDF",2393716.16,80,"The project has been well initiated. The project team is in place and motivated. One initial meeting was held 20/06/2023 to ensure all project partners are aware of the program requirements. Since then monthly meetings have been held to follow up the progress of the project. The project management has been smooth. Two steering group meetings have been held, and the phase 1 partner reports were completed without major obstacles. \n\nSelection of reed harvesting sites are ongoing in all project areas. Discussions with landowners, harvesters and companies involved in logistics and processing of reed are ongoing. In Sweden the first harvesting was done in autumn 2023, while in all other areas the initial harvesting will start in 2023. A monitoring program, focusing on pre- and post monitoring for the harvest sites has been completed to ensure monitoring is completed in a uniform manner throughout the consortium.\n     \nProgress has been made regarding mapping stakeholders in the value chain for reed-based solutions, including land owners, municipalities, harvest machine manufacturers, harvesting companies, logistics providers and commercial companies. Market-, feasibility- and business case analysis for different commercial uses for reed have been initiated.  More than 10 possible commercial products have been identified - in each product category background research has been conducted (previous project material, scientific reports, news articles) and experts (research institutes, trade professionals, other NGO´s) have been contacted and interviewed. \nPlanning and development of new products has been initiated by conducting a literature research to learn about reed, and preliminary laboratory trials to produce fully biodegradable composites with natural non-toxic binders have been successful. The project will continue to look into possibilities of the material and look into partners to develop the product further. \n\nThe legislation review has been initiated I Finland, Sweden and Åland. The aim is to compare the legislation of harvesting permits and recognize the key legislative bottlenecks regarding reed harvesting on a large scale between the project countries, as well as comparing practices of the Central Baltic area in multipurpose planning. The base guideline of the legislation review has bee set and two reports were ordered, an overall legislation review and a policy review which will eventually be presented to the government.\n\nProject communication has been active. A communication plan for the project has been completed as foreseen.  The website has been opened and is continuously updated (D1.5.1) The project kick-off was held on 19/09/2023 in accordance with the project plan (D1.5.2.). 77 persons representing 44 organizations interested in reed participated in the kick-off seminar. The project has been presented in the media and in several seminars in the project area. The internal project communication has been functioning very well, and monthly partnership meeting have been arranged to ensure knowledge and information exchange among the partners is efficient and that the implementation of the project progresses as foreseen. Also, specific and working groups focusing on monitoring, harvesting and value chain development have been established among the relevant partner organizations to ensure efficient coordination and a smooth progress of the activities on a project level.   \n\nNo major obstacles, delays or deviations that affects the reaching of the project objectives have occurred.\n","Mariehamn, Turku, Helsinki,  Linköping, Stockholm","FI, SE",null,"Sverige (SE), Linköping",null,null,null,6]
["CB0500259","Employment Development and Growth for Refugees in Estonia and Latvia","Estonian Refugee Council and Shelter Safe House will implement employability training jointly in Estonia and Latvia, building on our past experience with this activity and our access to target communities. Both organisations have extensive reach within refugee communities and the capacity to implement projects which holistically combine livelihoods support and mental health.\n\nEligible participants are characterised by the intersectional vulnerability of refugee status. Both partners will get input from the national Work Inspections in Estonia and Latvia, who have agreed to contribute to programme design.\n\nEach group of 10-12 people will be trained 5 full days (2 days of practical skills, 2 of psychological skills, 1 day for job interview practice). Tentative training topics include adaptation and coping mechanisms, strength-mapping, navigation of a digital labour market, goals planning, job application preparation, and an overview of the respective national labour market. Exact topics will be decided with assessment of each group's most acute needs. After 5 full days of training, we connect participants with companies for apprenticeships or job shadow opportunities, which may last from 1 day up until several weeks. If we notice that participants are in need of more in-depth psychological help at any point during the duration of the project, they will be referred to mental health resources freely available, including both partners’ therapists who are skilled in handling complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). \n\nIn addition to immediate and long term benefits for participating individuals and their families, this project also deepens ties between refugee-oriented organisations in the Baltic Region.","2024-05-01","2025-07-31","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",213465.1,"ERDF",170772.07,80,"At least 250 refugees will be more confident and prepared to actively job search on the labour market in Estonia and Latvia.","Riga, Tartu","LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100058","Development of joint circular solutions in the CB restaurant sector","Changing our food system towards CE is one of the most powerful tools to tackle climate change and build biodiversity. The restaurant sector, as a part of this system, is an asset-heavy industry and a complex ecosystem of interconnected actors relying on huge quantities and flows of exhaustible natural resources. Simultaneously, this hardest hit sector by COVID-19 is looking for new sustainable approaches to recover and rebuild. However, there exists significant transition barriers and territorial challenges to shift from linear to circular economy. \n\nAs restaurants are influential in shifting to a CE for food, the main objective of the Ce4Re project is to promote the transition towards CE in the CB restaurant sector. This is accomplished by developing joint circular solutions for restaurants focusing on processes related to purchasing, preparing, and serving food. The targeted key value chain is the restaurant sector with the chain of contractors related to food. In total, 300 restaurants participate in the project. \n\nThe developed and interconnected solutions focus on three CE principles (Redesign, Reduce, Rethink). A Circular Menu Tool and a Waste Reduction Toolset to prevent large volumes of waste are developed. In addition, the EkoGo app to make consumers rethink and change their behaviour towards CE is developed acting also as a marketing tool for circular restaurants. The solutions are duplicated and extended across CB borders.\n\nThe novelty value lies in the context of developing CE in the much neglected service sectors and its approach to have an impact on both, restaurants and consumers, to minimise waste production. By participating in the project, restaurants will have low-cost, easy-to-use solutions supporting their efficient transition into CE. Their environmental footprint will be minimised, less waste generated and profitability increased due to the cost savings.","2023-09-01","2026-06-30","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","069 Commercial, industrial waste management: prevention, minimisation, sorting, reuse, recycling measures","N",1117759.6,"ERDF",894207.6800000001,80,"The project focus in the first project period has been on launching the project itself, increasing stakeholders' awareness of the project and implementing the activities of the WP1: Preparatory actions to develop the solutions.\n\nThe main activities in the WP1 were implemented as follows:\nValue chain engagement\nA marketing campaign with an open call to recruit restaurants to participate in the project was implemented. This also included information events held in three partner countries. The campaign aimed to increase restaurants' knowledge and raise their awareness about CE and its importance, the project, and its activities. \n\nFeasibility plan\nPESTEL analysis and analysis of the existing digital solution were conducted jointly. Company level analysis was conducted by interviewing various types of restaurants in three countries. See more information about the restaurants in the section Target groups.\n\nSetting the baseline and targets\nThe existing indicators were examined to establish relevant indicators for measuring the impact of the project activities. The indicator, food waste in kilos, was deemed appropriate to measure in the project. The target varies depending on the restaurant's type and business model and the source of food waste. The target will be set in percentages. This work will continue in the second period.\n\nManagement and communication\nRelevant staff for the project was assigned. The project management team (4 persons) was nominated who oversees strategic project management. A communication team in charge of communication was nominated.  A steering group consisting of representatives of key stakeholders and project partners’ management was set up, and the first online meeting was held on 14.11.2023. A management plan and financial plan were created and presented in the kick-off meeting. A risk register was also established. \n\nThe project kick-off meeting (M1) was organised in Pori, Finland 6-8.9.2023. The goal was to start the project, ensure mutual understanding and launch the WP1. The first progress meeting (M2) was held in Stockholm, Sweden 17-19.1.2024 with the goal to monitor and evaluate project implementation and launch the WPs 2-4. Online meetings were held on 22Sep, 23Oct, 10Nov, 27Nov, 8Feb, and 27Feb to check and discuss the progress. Project partners also participated in the events organised by the CB Programme (10 and 12 Oct 2023). For internal communication, a GDrive was established. The project was promoted in CB webspace, by designing country-specific websites in connection with the organisation webpages, posting in social media channels, emailing to networks and participating in events.\n\nThe main achievement was the joint established understanding of the characteristics and the key features of circular economy in the restaurant sector. The consortium was able to identify the challenges of the circular transition in the restaurant sector and plan future project activities to respond to these challenges and needs. IIt was agreed that restaurants are interested in the topic, want to learn more about it and are willing to collaborate with the project.\n","Cēsis, Cēsu novads, Eura, Tyresö, Pori","LV, FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100105","Empowering scale-up of CB tech-sector companies","Many newly established tech companies in the CB region operate inside a somewhat limited environment. They are micro/small/mid-size companies that operate in small markets providing a limited range of products or services and often struggle with similar challenges. Such limits in business operations are followed by obvious consequences: they are unwilling to network and find common ground or interest with other companies in their sector or geographical location to build cooperation and prepare e.g. joint offers to bigger procurements; they are unable to find and go to new markets, they do not attract new capital and, therefore, many of them just go out of business or remain stagnant.\n\nFostered by the EU and national/regional digital strategies and policies, the demand for scalable business models will grow rapidly in the upcoming years based on the usage of new technologies. To ensure the competitiveness of the technology sector in CB region, the competencies and readiness of micro and small companies to use new technologies, products/ services, and develop further their business models must be increased.\n\nThe project aims at developing and implementing a CB Scaler Support Program consisting of a set of services that empower CB tech-sector companies, mostly focusing on smart manufacturing, ICT, e-governance, and smart mobility, to scale up. The Program consists of training and coaching modules with both generic topics, such as marketing and business model, and tailormade modules, such as specific competence or skills development. Some of the mentioned modules are existing in partners´ portfolios and need adjustment to address the target group, some services are missing and need to be developed. \n\nIn total partners expect 90 target group companies to attend the Support Program, and 30 companies to achieve a scaleup status as defined by the Central Baltic Program.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","015 Digitising SMEs or large enterprises (including e-Commerce, e-Business and networked business processes, digital innovation hubs, living labs, web entrepreneurs and ICT start-ups, B2B) compliant with greenhouse gas emission reduction or energy efficiency criteria","N",1791027.96,"ERDF",1432822.36,80,"The main focus in period 1 from March 2023 to August 2023 was on getting the project started,planning and preparing the activities that support the targeted end results of this project in close collaboration with the project partners. To this end these activities included project initiation (contractual management), familiarisation with the Central Baltic Programme requirements, overall management of activities and regular online meetings with the project partners, which have exchanged knowledge and approaches regarding how to engage SMEs and have established a common understanding of how to successfully achieve the project targets.\nThe main activities was to scouting SMEs trough different comunication channels (project partner business contacts, organizing face-to-face and online meetings, sending out newsletters, info in partners web pages) and identifying their  specific needs and set clear targets for their growth and development. During this period, project partners have been diligently working towards creating a structured and comprehensive framework to support SMEs. Essential was the establishment of a survey and a set of  questions, designed to enable SMEs to articulate their specific needs and set clear targets for their growth and development. Within the collaborative partnership, the Scaler Support Program's services have been defined and articulated, ensuring clarity and coherence in its implementation. These services have been categorized into two key modules: Generic and Tailor-Made Modules. Additionally, a set of main priority topics has been identified within these modules. These include: Sales & Marketing: Equipping SMEs with strategies to enhance their market presence and customer reach. Product Management & Innovation: Fostering innovation and effective product management practices. International Markets & Export: Providing guidance on expanding into international markets and optimizing export opportunities. People Management: Enhancing skills in managing human resources effectively. Financial Management: Strengthening financial management capabilities. Fundraising: Offering insights into fundraising strategies and opportunities.\nOverall, the progress achieved thus far demonstrates the project partners' dedication to creating a robust support program that is tailored to the specific needs of SMEs and promises to be a valuable resource for their development.\n\nDuring the second Project period, the following activities took place:\n\n- Project partner meeting in Tallinn on 6th of September 2023\n- Project partner and Joint Secretatiat (JS) meeting in Helsinki on 7th of December 2023\n- Project partner meeting in Tartu on 25th of January 2024 (in sTARTUp day Tartu)\n- Project partner meeting in Riga on 19th of February 2024\n- Weekly online meetings with project partners to follow up on project progress\n- Scouting SMEs to participate in the Scaler Up programme\n- Jointly created marketing materials for social media within the partnership to attract target companies\n- Updated a enroling survey and consistently refined the methodology materials, which is also contribute in Handbook materials\n- The project partners have diligently worked toward creating project plan of action\n- Ongoing communication with the SMEs\n\nProvided trainings/matchmaking events for SMEs - \n*20th and 21st of September 2023 - Smalltalk and Netwirking (Estonia)\n*5th of October - Scaling workshop with Jin Han (Latvia)\n*18th of October 2023 - Kick-off Finland\n*15th of November - NEXPO pitching (Tallinn)\n*28th of November - Virtual Tech Day by Toyota (online, Finland)\n*29th of November - Slush Side event (Finland)\n*15th of December Go To Market and Positioning workshop (online, Finland)\n*25th of January 2024 - sTARTUp day side-event \"Challanges in Scaling up\" (Tartu)\n\n- The project partners have diligently worked toward creating a structured and comprehensive framework for the Scaler Up Programme to support SMEs in their growth journey (trainings, events)\n- Calendar for year 2024 activities was created\n- Jointly work to find and provide SMEs with potentional experts/trainers and mentors for SMEs\n\nIn parallel, project partners has invested efforts in strengthening our projects online presence and communication channels - updating our website, leveraging social media platforms like LinkedIn and and all project partners uses their communication channels (social media, newsletters, web pages) to spred info about ESCALTECH project and its opportunities.","Tampere, Rīga, Tallinn","FI, LV, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","The joint cross-border challenge that the project tackles is the underuse of textile. It is caused by a lack of circularity in the textile and fashion industries leading to an overflow of textile waste. All CB countries must work together to find solutions to prevent unnecessary used textile exports from Finland and Sweden to Estonia, Latvia, and elsewhere. \nThe project aims to improve textile reuse and reduce textile waste, which will be achieved through improving the business models of second-hand companies and other companies that want to add a second-hand operation to their business and also through enhancing consumers’ use of second-hand market as both sellers and consumers.\nThe main outputs of the project are: a set of improved business models and concepts; a library of consumer nudges; a set of stakeholder management and commitment activities; an open-access digital platform; online educational materials for industry professionals and students; scoping reviews of the current state, problems and opportunities in the second-hand textile market. \nThe main groups that benefit from the projects are second-hand companies (charities, SMEs) and other fashion and textile companies that would like to add second-hand operations to their business, business support organizations, and consumers.\nThe project applies a service design approach. It offers a carefully-designed and industry-tailored set of innovative co-creation activities with organizations, consumers, experts, and other stakeholders. The activities include research for defining current problems and needs of the industry and consumers; regional cross-border workshops for ideation, concepting, prototyping, testing and piloting of innovative solutions; local co-creation workshops; implementation coaching; stakeholder management and commitment activities and open online education. The solutions will be piloted by UFF Finland along with other companies.","2023-04-01","2026-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.6. Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","069 Commercial, industrial waste management: prevention, minimisation, sorting, reuse, recycling measures","N",1661431.98,"ERDF",1329145.58,80,"D.1.1.1 Desk research report (background research completed on the problems and opportunities of the second-hand market in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia), was completed and the information successfully used in our other activities and communication materials. \n\nD.1.1.2 Bench-marking report including consumer nudges (best business models for decreasing textile waste and also best ways to increase the reuse of textiles including consumer nudges), was also completed with this again being shared between the partners providing great insight in to the potential models and practices which could be piloted and these have also been used in our other activities and communication materials. \n\nThese reports provided a great foundation for creating the interview guides which would be used for the organisation interviews, consumer interviews and consumer surveys. They provided us the background knowledge and understanding for looking at some of the themes and aspects which need to be delved in further during the interviews and gave the interviewees a great understanding of how to highlight the potential opportunities and problems in the actual interviews when speaking to the organisations and consumers. They provided us great material for our presentation slides and great points of engagement which could be used in marketing activities.\n\nD.1.1.3 List of stakeholders in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia (a list of stakeholders was produced by each partner. These were categorised into second-hand companies, non-profit organisations, textile manufacturer, Department stores & Retailers). These stakeholders were potential organisations who could be recruited for the Baltic2Hand project for a later date but were also used as an initial list of organisations who could be contacted for the interviews. \n\nThese lists provided us with a very organisational manner in which we could contact organisations and update these lists according to their interest and availability for the project. Even for those organisations who could not participate in the interviews, we could contact for other events such as webinars or workshops depending on their interest in the project.  \n\nIt served as a contact sheet where we could keep up to date with our stakeholders.  \n\n\nD.1.1.5 Online Platform for education, research and activities (the online platform was created and became active). The Baltic2Hand platform has been included on TUAS Telaketju page (TUAS is one of the Baltic2Hand partners). On this page we have educational materials section, research and publications section, and a blog. \n\n \nDuring period 1, we have manged to move towards securing our output 1.1 (having 40 participants in the project activities across border). Each partner created a stakeholder list where are number of the organisations have already been contacted to participate in the organisation interviews which we are using as a first point of contact for marketing the project activities. Finland list contained 97 organisations to be considered, Sweden’s list 40, Estonia’s list 61 and Latvia’s 41. We have a great range of organisations who we are looking at recruiting in each partner country.  \nIn period 2, we successfully completed a number of activities and deliverables which were outlined in the project proposal. The interview results report D.1.2.1, was finalised through the completion of the field work and the analysis of the field research results. A consumer survey and consumer interviews were completed in all four country locations alongside organisation interviews. \nThe interview analysis reports D.1.3.1, was also scheduled to be completed in period 2, however, this deliverable was rescheduled for period 3 so that the research results from the consumer survey, consumer interviews and organisation interviews could be analysed in-depth and the visualisations planned to serve multiple purposes for the project. Consumer personas were completed in period 2 but the other visualisations and different analysis reports will be completed by the end of September 2024. Laurea is primarily responsible for completing these visualisations but all partners have provided feedback for the timetable and schedule will also be completing blogs and articles from the research results. \nThe train the trainer sessions D.1.5.3 were all completed by the end of period 2. At least 1 member from each partner participated in the training sessions and these were also recorded and shared on our team channel to allow those who could not participate in the training to watch these later.\nIn total, 7 different training sessions were completed. 2 training sessions on service design, 2 training sessions on circular economy, 1 training session on changes being made in EU legislation, 1 training session on online facilitation and 1 training session or prototyping. These training sessions provided theory and practical training on these topics, allowing all Baltic2Hand project team members to be able to participate in and contribute to our upcoming ideation and prototyping workshops with the organisations. \nOne cross-border online information session D.1.6.2 was also completed in November. These were based on the research results from the desk research D.1.1.1 and D.1.1.2 activity and the consumer and organisation field research. This cross-border information session was set up by Laurea and TUAS, but all other partners helped to advertise the event and contacted fashion and textile organisations in their respective countries to attend. \nOne of the webinar activities, deliverable 1.5.2 was completed in period 2. Whilst al of the webinars were initially scheduled for period 2, it was agreed with Interreg that their completion could be extended up until the end of period 3. Laurea completed their webinar in March 2024, and the rest of the partners have already planned and scheduled their webinars and made sure these are completed before the end of period 3. We currently have regular meetings where each partner discusses and provides updates on their planned webinar. \nOne of the period 3 outputs, cross-border hackathon was also completed in period 2. All partners were responsible for recruiting one textile organisation form their respective country to participate in the hackathon where they needed to provide a circular challenge, and students from each partner country competed against each other in small teams to provide a solution for these challenges. Each partner successfully recruited an organisation, recruited jury members from their country to help judge the winner for each challenge and recruited students to participate in the hackathon. Laurea oversaw coordinating the event, but as this was a hybrid event, each partner was responsible for organising a physical space where participants could gather if needed. Partners were also responsible for coordinating the event with their respective students and their recruited organisation, but Laurea was responsible for providing the online space where the event would take place and ensure logistics etc. All partners were present on the 1,5 days of the event.\nThe recruitment and planning for the upcoming cross-border ideation workshops already began in period 2. This included scheduling of the workshops, the logistics and planning of the workshops, and the recruitment of organisations to these workshops. This required an immense amount of co-operation between all partners. We have collectively strategized the recruitment process, set internal targets, shared advertising and contact materials and discussed recruitment tactics. \n\n","Riga, Uppsala, Tallinn, Turku, Vantaa","LV, SE, EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},5]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","In the context of COVID-19 recovery, a global climate crisis, rising inflation and renewed geopolitical instability, it is vital that we continue to reinforce individual and societal resilience in the Baltic Sea region. A key element of this is ensuring that all members of society have equitable access to sustainable, dignified livelihoods, as well as the tools, training and support needed to get there.\n\nThe EU has recently promoted social entrepreneurship as a vital tool in strengthening the resilience of European societies, and has particularly highlighted the sector’s suitability for younger generations who are less likely to see a contradiction between making profit and creating social impact. However the visibility of the sector remains low, especially outside the region’s major cities.\n\nThis project therefore aims to unleash the power of social entrepreneurship as a tool to support the self-development and self-sufficiency of disadvantaged youth in Finland and Latvia. By the end of their engagement with the programme, participants should have developed strong entrepreneurial mindsets, transferable soft skills, and most importantly a clear understanding of how to start-up their own socially-minded business. Their continued development as social entrepreneurs will then be supported long-term through a new online peer network.\n\nWith its focus on social entrepreneurship as a tool for youth empowerment, we believe our project will be one of the first of its kind in the region. Our project approach will therefore be grounded in cross-border sharing of expertise, in-depth evaluation, adaptability and reflection on potential replicability. The project will conclude with a series of dissemination activities directed towards relevant stakeholders.\n\nThe total budget of the project is 748 594,26 EUR, an investment of approximately 6 000 EUR per participant.","2023-04-01","2025-09-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","136 Specific support for youth employment and socio-economic integration of young people","N",741733.85,"ERDF",593387.0600000001,80,"The current report outlines the initial phase of the SocEntYouth project, therefore, there was a significant effort put on collaboration strengthening, coordination of the project tasks, including strategic planning and development of the detailed implementation plan, monitoring of the project timelines, confirming effective resource allocation, and addressing any potential roadblocks promptly. It also included setting up the structure for the project management, for instance, monthly partner meetings were held to discuss the progress and arising questions and concerns, next steps. \nTwo kick-off events were organised at the beginning of the project: \n-\tImplementation team kick off. The event was held in Riga and focused on reinforcing a shared understanding of the project's goals, objectives, and scope, outline the project's timeline, identify task allocation, roles and responsibilities, reporting framework and setting clear expectations for all participants. \n-\tSteering group kick off was focused on building confidence and understanding within the SG team to ensure strategic guidance, input, insights, and decision-making support throughout the project's lifecycle.\n\nAdaptation of the core bootcamp program. \nA collaborative effort resulted in the development of a core bootcamp program tailored to the needs of disadvantaged youth in Latvia and Finland on the base of the previously tested Reach for Change programs. The insights collected during the steering committee meeting were also taken into account. The bootcamp core program had not been finalised during the reporting Period 1 and work continues. \n\nInnovation Lab Material Translation. \nTranslation tasks for Innovation Lab materials into Latvian and Finnish were executed through a procured service provider. The complex logistics of the materials translation was set up coordinating the efforts of the procured translators and partners to ensure accuracy and alignment of the final versions of the translated materials.\n\nSelection Criteria Development and Confirmation.\nConsortia developed and Interreg confirmed the selection criteria for project participants. A thorough review process aligned the criteria with Interreg's vision, ensuring effective identification of beneficiaries.\n\nApplication Platform Development.\nA user-friendly application platform, based on Paperform application, was developed as a central hub for participant applications. The platform facilitates the application process ensuring transparency, resource sharing and data collection, enhancing the overall participant experience. The platform was translated into the local languages. A training seminar was run to make sure the partners have full functional understanding of the platform performance. \n\nCommunication Activities.\n-\tA comprehensive communication strategy outlining the project's messaging, timeline, target audiences, and channels have been drafted and finalised. One of the goals of the comms strategy is to make sure that partners’ comms efforts are aligned with the Interreg communication and visibility requirements. \n-\tA procurement was run to obtain design and visual assets for social media campaign (social media frameworks) as well as public presentations (roll-up un poster designs).\n-\tA mechanism for the workflow coordination has been introduced that involves the communication content translation into local languages. The effectiveness of social media efforts has been measured using analytics to make data-driven improvements.\n-\tIn addition to online activities, an outreach effort has been started to engage with potential participants as well as other stakeholders during participation in relevant events to amplify our message.\n\nThe cooperation within the SocEntYouth project has proven to be strategically valuable, particularly in the context of organizing similar efforts in distinct geographies – Latvia and Finland. This collaborative approach has significantly enhanced the project's outcomes and overall efficacy: \n-\tTailored Methodology and Materials. The collaborative effort has allowed us to tailor, adapt and align the training program methodology with the unique characteristics of each locality. Recognizing and addressing local peculiarities has been instrumental in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of our initiatives.\n\n-\tStrategic Recruitment Planning. Planning the recruitment campaign has been a nuanced process, and the collaboration has provided a platform for understanding and integrating the specific requirements of each geography. \n\n-\tExpertise Pooling. A pivotal aspect of our collaboration has been the pooling of diverse qualifications. Specific competencies in project management, communication, targeted outreach to the project's demographic, and a comprehensive understanding of methodology development and evaluation processes have been consolidated. \n\n\nSpecific Objectives and Achievements\nDuring the first cycle, held in February and March 2024, significant progress was made in empowering disadvantaged youth in Latvia and Finland through tailored social entrepreneurship training. A total of 33 young participants—14 from Latvia and 19 from Finland—successfully completed the core components: the Bootcamp and the Leadership Camp. An online cross-border network on Discord was established to foster ongoing communication and support among participants. The network provided a platform for sharing organizational information, engaging discussions, and posting relevant content \nThe training was supplemented by the Innovation Lab, an optional phase for continued idea development. Eight participants (four from each country) enrolled in this stage, which extended until July 31, 2024. \n\nCommunication Objectives\nA comprehensive communication strategy was employed to recruit and engage disadvantaged youth, focusing on multiple outreach channels:\n1. Social Media Campaign: A targeted campaign leveraged the project partners' social media channels to reach potential participants. The campaign used a mix of organic content and paid advertisements highlighting the program's benefits and encouraging applications. After the recruitment phase, the focus shifted to maintaining project visibility by sharing participant testimonials, key learnings, and progress updates.\u2028\n2. Outreach to Youth Organizations: Email communication was used to inform relevant youth organizations about the program. These organizations were provided with detailed information and encouraged to promote the program within their networks, effectively broadening the reach.\u2028\n3. Video Production: Professional video content was created during the Leadership Camp in Latvia, featuring workshop footage and participant interviews. These videos were designed to showcase the program's impact and will be crucial in future recruitment efforts.\u2028\n4. Spark Network: The Spark Network, hosted on Discord, served as an interactive space for participants from both countries to connect, discuss training topics, and access practical updates. \u2028\nProject Progress\nThe project has progressed as planned, with each partner contributing to its success:\n* Reach for Change: Oversaw project management, communication efforts, and the adaptation of training materials. This included organizing the Leadership Camp in Rīga and recruiting experts for both the Leadership Camp and Innovation Lab.\u2028\n* Creative Ideas: Led participant recruitment in Latvia, organized the Bootcamp, and facilitated participants' involvement in subsequent program stages, coordinated participation in the Leadership Camp and Innovation Lab.\u2028\n* DILA: Managed participant recruitment in Finland, organized the Finnish Bootcamp, and coordinated participation in the Leadership Camp and Innovation Lab.\u2028\n* Juvenia: Contributed to training material adaptation, developed evaluation tools, and drafted an internal report on Cycle 1 outcomes.\u2028\nKey deliverables achieved during this period include:\n* Development of Training Tools: Training tools for Cycle 1 were fully developed and translated into Latvian and Finnish. The materials were uploaded to the platform, ensuring accessibility for all participants. A Training of Trainers session was also conducted to ensure high-quality instruction.\u2028\n* Communication Campaign: The campaign successfully attracted 73 applications (40 from Finland and 33 from Latvia). A full set of campaign materials was developed, translated, and adapted as needed.\u2028\n* Bootcamp: Completed by 55 participants—24 in Finland and 31 in Latvia—with training focused on social entrepreneurship fundamentals.\u2028\n* Leadership Camp: Held in Latvia in March 2024, this camp brought together 33 participants (19 from Finland and 14 from Latvia). The program included leadership training, design thinking sessions, as well as teambuilding activities fostering a strong sense of community.\u2028\n* Spark Network: The network facilitated participant interaction and resource sharing. \u2028\n* Innovation Lab: Materials were translated and uploaded to the platform, with activities commencing in April 2024 and continuing through July.\u2028\n* Mid-term Evaluation: Data collection for the mid-term evaluation was completed, with analysis and reporting set to follow in the next period.\u2028\nAdded Value of Cooperation\nThis cross-border collaboration between Latvian and Finnish partners has proven invaluable, combining diverse expertise to create a robust, adaptable training program. The cooperative effort has not only facilitated the sharing of best practices but also enriched the learning experience for participants by exposing them to different cultural perspectives. This collaborative approach has enhanced the quality of training materials and broadened the reach and impact of the program, ultimately contributing to the development of a vibrant social entrepreneurship ecosystem across both countries.","Mikkeli, Lahti, Riga, Stockholm","FI, LV, SE",{"$nulls":5},5]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","The farm nutrient runoff is one of the sources of nutrients eventually entering from surface waters to the Baltic Sea. As livestock farming has become more effective and intensive, so has the silage production. As today’s silage production technologies have not been studied enough from nutrients leakeages point of view, then there is a need to map and address the environmental risks. While doing it we need to look at the whole chain from growing silage to storing and using it, as well as waste management of used silage plastic. Farmers need more information and professional expertise about different innovative agri-environmental solutions in silage production, which are most applicable for project area. Thus there is a need for pilot and capacity building activities targeted to the animal husbandry sector in Estonia, Latvia and Finland.The environmental risks from silage production need to be addressed in cross border cooperation, as national efforts only are not sufficient. \nThe project \"Sustainable Silage\" is focusing on reducing silage effluents in full silage production cycle in farm level. Planned silage management analysis cover the environmental, economic, and quality aspects . 20-25 farms from pilot areas test different farming practices and solutions in silage production, and the impact to the nutrien leakages will be evaluated and analyzed. Farmers receive well-founded information, practical guidelines and recommendations about the efficiency of different types of technologies and farming practices, which have real positive impact to the environment. \nIt is the first joint initiative of agricultural producers, farmers organizations and research institutions in Central Baltic area focusing to the environmental issues in silage production.\nPlanned total project budget is ca 2,1 million euros, incl. LP ca 380 000 €, PP2 ca 330 000 €, PP3 ca 320 000 €, PP4 ca 300 000 €, PP5 ca 300 000 €, PP6 ca 300 000 €, PP7 ca 170 000 €.","2023-01-01","2025-12-31","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",2093939.88,"ERDF",1675151.88,80,"Project partners have successfully involved 26 pilot farms (10 from Estonia, 10 from Latvia and 6 from West-Finland). who are ready to pilot some agri-environmental actions in silage production. Partners have analyzed their needs and potential for testing some new practices and approaches in silage production and have prepared draft activity plans for each farm. First soil, silage, grass and silage effluents analyses have been taken from the pilot farms. The environmental action plans will be composed during 2.reporting period based on the results of the samples and first pilot actions. It is planned that the implementation of pilot actions will start in full scale in spring 2024, when project experts have more detailed information about pilot areas appointed for piloting in farms, incl. the results of different samples. Currently partners are optimistic that all 26 pilot farms will participate in pilot programme until the end of the project and in at least 20 farms some results can be achieved which can be used in final report when making the practical recommendations to the farmers in project area.\nThe Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge has started the field trial in Jõgeva trial station for evaluating the possibilities to use the silage effluent as grassland fertilizer. The trial plan is composed and preliminary soil samples were taken to choose area for field trials. Based on that the trial area is chosen and grass mixtures for trial are composed. \nLUKE from Finland has started the analysis of the effects of management factors on silage effluent production and nutrient losses. An online questionnaire was prepared where farmers reported their silage making practises and samples of silages were collected  representing the methods. The experiment will start in next reporting period.\n\nProject partners started successfully the implementation of pilot programme in 26 pilot farms. In Latvia and Estonia additional silage experts were involved both as staff members (in Estonia) and external experts (in Latvia). Project team members and external silage experts conducted farm visits, provided consultations, monitored the pilot actions and took and analyzed necessary samples (soil, silage, plants, silage effluents, water). The environmental action plans were updated according to the real situations in pilot farms. \n\nPP3 METK started the field trial in Jõgeva trial station for evaluating the possibilities to use the silage effluent as grassland fertilizer. Trial plots on grassland trial area were fertilized with grass silage effluent, which was collected from one pilot farm.  Soil and grass samples were collected from the trial plots, to evaluate silage effluent effect on soil and grass properties. Another grassland trial area was established to make silage effluent trial in 2024. Soil samples were collected from that trial plots to collect initial data about soil properties.\n\nPP6 Luke started the analysis of the effects of management factors on silage effluent production and nutrient losses by contacting a pilot scale ensiling experiment during summer 2023. Due to the dry weather in early summer, the conduction of the ensiling trial was postponed to late summer, when it was successfully concluded. The silos were opened after a 3 month fermentation period in the end of October. After that, the laboratory analyses started and were in progress until the end of the reporting period. \n\nPartners organized capacity building events for farmers:\n- Estonia: field day in 31.07.23 in Hummuli farm and practical seminar in 13.12.23 in Märja.\n- Latvia:s practical seminar and field day in 10.10.23 in \"Vecauce\" farm.\n- Finland: practical seminar in the framework of \"Lännen märehtijäpäivät\" in 13.-14.12.2023\n\nPartners arranged the exchange of experience visit of Latvian and Finnish farmers to Estonia in 3.-5.of October 2023. There was 13 participants from Latvia and 12 participants from Finland. During the visit 2 workshops were held and group visited 4 farms.","Riga, Jelgava, Jokioinen, Turku, Tartu, Jõgeva, Tallinn","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},7]
["CB0300200","Archipelago Remote Services","The residents in the archipelago of Sweden and Åland are cut off from many public services such as music education, cultural events, and societal services commonly provided in the cities. The current meeting platforms have proven to be not suitable for these purposes. Consequently, it is hard for island communities to attract highly skilled professionals and workforce, nor to keep the young from moving to the urban centers especially if they aspire to work within creative industries or performing arts. Like building a bridge to an island impacts population growth, attaching these islands digitally to the urban centers and making the same services available will turn the tide of depopulation and brain drain. \n\nACROSS will build on knowledge acquired through a series of Nordic/Baltic low-latency telepresence projects to digitally provide currently inaccessible music education services and cultural events to the residents of the Swedish and Åland archipelago. It will connect 8-10 islands to SMI and Riksteatern in Stockholm and to ÅMI in Mariehamn using unique low-latency real-time broadcast quality technology developed by the Remote North community. This will bring new public services to the Baltic archipelagoes.\n\nThe project’s outputs are: \n\n1. remote music education for youth\n\n2. remote continuing education for music teachers and pedagogy courses for professional musicians\n\n3. digital inter-island and island-urban cultural events\n\nThe music schools, SMI and ÅMI, will provide the music and continuing education as a part of their curriculum. Riksteatern and NIPÅ will produce performing arts content and arrange inter-island and island-urban amateur and professional cultural events.\n\nDigitalisation and delivery of these services requires cross-border collaboration at the local (island), regional (ÅMI, NIPÅ) and national (SMI, Riksteatern) levels, which comes naturally for these regions who share a common language.\n\n2.35M€ - SMI 39,2%, ÅMI 39,4%, Riksteatern 16,7%, NIPÅ 4,7%","2024-04-01","2027-03-31","(VI-A_CB_P4) Improved public services","ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)","PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance","173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context","N",2349367.02,"ERDF",1879493.6,80,"Youth on the islands will receive music education for the first time, thus fulfilling an overwhelming need and making the islands a more attractive place to live.\nProfessional musicians and teachers will gain the opportunity to collaborate, and receive additional training and teaching certification, thus choosing to remain on/move to the island communities.\nProvide live cultural events and workshops to islanders that previously had not been available.  ","Mariehamn, Norsborg, Huddinge","FI, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0100108","Woman & Entrepreneur Creating Business","WE C Business empowers entrepreneurship and leadership among girls in the ages of 18-25.\nThe Central Baltic economies experience relatively high youth unemployment rates, indicating the challenge of young graduates to enter the labour market. The second challenge that we still are facing in any country in the year 2022 is that it is more common that men start companies and are actives as CEO´s than women.\n\nWith this project we want to encourage the target group to test their ideas and in an early age, see entrepreneurship as a potential path forward. We want young women to see the opportunities with international network and business.\n\nIn today's labor market, entrepreneurial qualities are in demand by employers. A Swedish survey, conducted by Nova after the pandemic, shows that employers and recruiters are increasingly demanding qualities such as drive and communication. Our participants will be able to train their entrepreneurial skills, which will make them more competitive in the labor market. The success factor for the project is not necessarily about the number of startups but about how many of the participants that are closer to achieve their goals. Whether the goal is a start up, employment or a leading position. \n\nWe see the opportunity to strengthen an entrepreneurial mindset and business capacity within young women - through inspiration, networking, role models of female leaders and entrepreneurs as mentors in the project and foremost through running their own company. We need an equal and healthy business climate that gives youth, both women and men, prerequisites to convert their ideas to sustainable operations and companies.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",1396230.79,"ERDF",1116984.62,80,"This first period has been all about building the project team, creating the training program, set the framework for our communication plan, creating marketing material, our webspace and starting to recruit the target group.The lead partner have led the work but done all of the operational work together with the two other partners. \nOur project group meet every second week digitally for meetings and followups. We have shared our thoughts, questions and we learn from each other and our different methods. \nTogether we have created the framework for all three cycles in the project. This first period we have set the project profile and the communication plan about what we would like to communicate  and how. We have a joined webspace together with the other project and also a landing place on google site where the target group can read more and sign up. We have created a project-Facebook and instagram account where we can market the training program to the girls and update the stakeholders about the project. We also created digital marketing materials to reach the target group.\nWe released the Project's profile, logo, fonts, colors and symbols, posters and templates for poster creation, all of which we did taking into account the established guidelines.\nSo far the project is working according to the time plan we have and all the partners contribute with their skills and good work. \nThis second period has been about implementing all the planning before the start of the training program. At the beginning of the period, we were in the midst of intensive marketing and recruitment for our respective 25 participants, totaling 75 participants. We then gathered everyone for a joint physical 3-day event in Örebro, Sweden to mark the official start of the training program in cycle 1.\n\nOur project team continued to meet digitally every other week during this second period, where we shared our thoughts on the ongoing work and planned ahead. We have continued to build and fine-tune our program in detail as we followed our established guidelines and plans from period 1. Between meetings, we communicated via email and in our WhatsApp project group for smooth and quick feedback on our work. While we, as the lead partner, have led the work, all operational tasks have been carried out collaboratively with the two other partners. During this period, we further solidified our collaboration and relationship as all three partners physically met for 2 days in Liepaja, Latvia.\n\nAt the end of the second period, we conducted 4 development group meetings and completed 10 out of 12 training modules across 20 sessions in cycle 1 of the training program. We have also initiated the marketing and recruitment efforts for cycle 2. So far, the project work has progressed according to the schedule, with all partners contribute their skills and experience as well as commitment and hard work.\n","Liepāja, Tartu, Örebro","LV, EE, SE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0300209","Boosting the Central Baltic cleantech exports to Japan","The proposed project focuses on the CB challenge of the limited sized market for green technology, cleantech and health benefitting services and products and on the other hand the limited scope product/service offerings often provided at by the CB area SME’s by joining their forces and boosting exports to Japanese market. The main objective is to obtain real sales/co-operation agreements for CB SME’s in Japan. \n\nJapan is the 3rd largest economy in the world and it is highly developed in e.g. manufacturing technology. However, the green technology and cleantech in Japan is not as widely spread and applied as in the CB region. Therefore there is a significant potential for the CB SME’s to be reached. The project aims to obtain 7 real deals for the CB SME’s as the main result. By joining the Finnish and Estonian SMEs and green clusters Green Net Finland and Tehnopol we can obtain the required strength and act as a pioneer for the CB region more widely, for extending the CB exports to Japan for future. \n\nIn addition, the project will increase the competence and skills of the CB SMEs by coaching and awareness raising, increases the presence and publicity of the CB SME’s products and services in the Japanese market, creates added value by joining CB SME’s together to form more competitive miniclusters which are more attractive in Japanese market and shares success stories and information about the Japan-focused export activities in the CB area. \n\nOriginal for the project is the timing and opportunity utilisation. CB and certain other areas of the EU are currently ahead of Japan in green technology innovation and circular economy. We also have a good reputation in Japan for our advanced green sector. We can now utilize the opportunity to obtain a presence in the Japanese market, which has recently started to make the green turn but is still behind CB region in its implementation.","2024-06-01","2027-05-31","(VI-A_CB_P1) Innovative business development","RSO1.3. Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments","PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity","021 SME business development and internationalisation, including productive investments","N",608135.3,"ERDF",486508.24,80,"Our specific objective is to boost exports of green technology SME companies targeting to Japanese market. The measurable objective is to reach and commit a total of 30 companies in the CB programme area.\nOur specific objective is to boost exports of green technology SME companies targeting to Japan market. The measurable objective is to achieve sales/agreements for 7 different companies from the CB programme area. \nIn addition to sales, the companies with documented agreement with local sales representative/commercial partner or a joint offer in Japan can be also included. \nReferring to the CB Programme Manual, this Programme Objective is also considered to be fulfilled if projects participate with joint offers towards international organisations. A possiblity here is also to make a written MoU with a Japanese partner for creating a practical demo in Japan. \nThe project will keep records of the participating companies and their achieved objectives. ","Tallinn, Helsinki","EE, FI",{"$nulls":5},2]
["CB0100071","Retrieval, recycling, and preventive actions for abandoned recreational fishing gear in the central Baltic Sea","The Re:Fish project addresses the problem of plastic pollution and ghost fishing in the Central Baltic Sea, starting with Sweden, Finland and Estonia as pilot areas. Abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), including fishing accessories are present in all seas, lakes and streams where recreational fishing is carried out. Lost passive fishing gear, gillnets in this case, cause unnecessary suffering to fish, birds, and marine mammals. Additionally, these nets contribute to pollution of both plastic and hazardous substances. It is also a common problem that these nets are left outdoors where they fragment and spread microplastics in the environment. The project will do retrieval operations, clean ups, collection of end-of-life (EOL) gear, use citizen science, conduct tests with deposit systems and carry out awareness raising campaigns. Results, recommendations and experiences from Re:Fish will be transferred to recreational fishers and the general public as well as to relevant actors/stakeholders, such as producers and retailers of fishing gear. Different to previous projects, Re:Fish will not only remove litter from the ocean, but tie several loose ends, such as activating relevant actors (recreational fishers, NGOs, Universities, and authorities) to result in better prevention and monitoring of ALDFG in leisure fishing by using citizen science as the core data. Together with the actions mentioned, the model of the cooperation can be replicated in other geographical areas and tied to the entire Baltic Sea. The Re:Fish is a unique and novel opportunity to focus on the marine ALDFG related transboundary issues of marine environmental protection and management in a holistic cross-border manner. The budget for this application will be in total 1 791 797,93 EUR distributed as follows: Keep Sweden Tidy, 541 228,00 EUR; Keep the Archipelago Tidy, 255 249,28 EUR; The Finnish Environment Institute, 368 305,75 EUR; and University of Tartu, 627 014,90 EUR.","2023-03-01","2026-02-28","(VI-A_CB_P2) Improved environment and resource use","RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution","PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility","064 Water management and water resource conservation (including river basin management, specific climate change adaptation measures, reuse, leakage reduction)","N",1787923.09,"ERDF",1430338.46,80,"The inaugural phase of a project consists of a lot of administrative tasks, involving the establishment of communication channels, formulation of meeting schedules, creation of agendas, and the critical task of recruiting personnel or allocating resources. All partners had a kick off meeting in Helsinki in May 2023 where everyone got to know eachother and there were a lot of discussions about the exciting activities that lay ahead and how to work with them together. In this first period, all partners defined important stakeholders and target groups, with proactive outreach to some. Another important achivement was that all partners began their public precurement processes for diving of ALDGF (abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear), something that demanded considerable time and effort. The biggest achievement for this period was the press release about the project that captivated substantial media attention. \nThe Re:Fish project has made progress in adressing the issues of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) through collaborative efforts between Finland, Estonia and Sweden. Procurement processes for dragging operations were completed with contracts signed for both net retrieval and collection of end-of-life (EOL) fishing gear. \n\nPotential fishing and diving areas were identified, and stakeholders were contacted for further collaboration. \n\nTemplates for preventive actions against the loss of recreational fishing gear were developed and refined through partner feedback, facilitating coherent documentation and reporting. \n\nThere has been an organized study trip to Sotenäs, Swedens first recycling marine center, that took place in October. Project partners and relevant stakeholders from Estonia and Finland participated. A short film from the study visit can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv3K8p1qNNE \n\nFinland has participated in a boat fair, a public event, and they also launched an internet-based application (RosGis) for the public to report lost or found fishing gear. \n","Helsinki, Tartu, Turku, Stockholm","FI, EE, SE",{"$nulls":5},4]
["CB0400179","CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS NAVIGATING THE JOB MARKET: SKILL-BUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL PEER LEARNING FOR ADDED AGENCY","The job market in the Culture and Creative Sector (CCS) is known for its fragmented nature: More typically than in other fields of work, in the CCS highly skilled professionals are working as self employed, with multiple employers and hybrid incomes of work, as freelancers, self-employed and micro entrepreneurs often with scarce incomes. The project target is to support professionals in the CCS complex and atypical job market, and seeks to strengthen especially the ones in a fragile job market situation to be able to develop their careers in a targeted manner, expand their transnational possibilities of work and to gain new entrepreneurial skills for added competitiveness. \n\nCreativeGPS is a project to support creative professionals to navigate in the job market. The skill-building program develops the participant capacities to manage career in an atypical surrounding through needed soft-skills and by the entrepreneurial possibilities. The project supports a total of 60 participants to engage in skill-building programs in Estonia, Finland and Latvia sparking transnational peer networks and opportunities also outside ones national borders. \n\nWith this project, the partners aim to achieve the following goals: firstly, the initiative aims to strengthen relevant skills of CCS professionals in fragile job market situations, to navigate their careers and have essential skills to create means for a more competitive position in the job market. Secondly, the project seeks to support the creation of transnational peer-learning, to encourage knowledge exchange and networking and added mobility and career paths cross-borders. Thirdly, through the open access materials, the project continues to support the independent capacity-building of the wider round of CCS professionals. \n\nAs a small-scale project CreativeGPS lays bases for further transnational collaborations to provide targeted support and new solutions for the benefit of creative professionals in less competitive positions in the job market.","2024-01-01","2025-06-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","146 Support for adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change","N",212643.62,"ERDF",170114.89,80,"One project specific objective: People with increased competitiveness: certificate proving the completion of skill-building  program and added transnational mobility.\n\nAdded skills, capacity and agency of directly 60 Culture and Creative Sector (CCS) professionals to manage and promote their career, exploit entrepreneurial opportunities and the transnational career opportunities with added mobility. \n\n\nKey Performance Indicators;\n- Hours of skill-building trainings in national settings online\n- Hours of skill-building trainings in transnational setting online (LV, EE, FI)\n- Hours of skill-building training in transnational setting onsite (Tallinn event)\n- Evaluation of added skills (survey for program participants)\n- Ready made and published open access skill-building material kit in 4 languages (EE, LV, FI, EN) \n- Downloads of the open access toolkit material kit\n\n","Riga, Helsinki, Tallinn","LV, FI, EE",{"$nulls":5},3]
["CB0400204","Women Online – digital marketing training for immigrant women from Ukraine in Latvia and Estonia","The project will address unemployment of immigrant women from Ukraine who arrived to Latvia and Estonia as refugees, which is a joint challenge for both countries. Economies of Baltic states were affected by the Covid-19 outbreak the most in the EU and still did not completely recover. Containment measures imposed on private companies during the pandemic led to weakened businesses and bankruptcies in a number of sectors. Economic consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war worsened the situation. These factors had a negative impact on the labour market and competition among job seekers rose. \n\nImmigrant women from Ukraine suffer more than other groups of society under such conditions and are at a particular risk of economic exclusion. Many of them find it hard to withstand competition with local inhabitants, Latvian and Estonian citizens, who are naturally well aware of the recruitment process in their home countries and managed to adjust their professional profiles accordingly. Ukrainian women who take care of children or elderly relatives have even fewer possibilities to enter the labour market, as they are often unable to work full time and/or fixed hours. Moreover, certain professions, such as, for example, lawyers and doctors, require a country-specific education and experience, which becomes an invincible obstacle for many Ukrainians in Latvia and Estonia. Newcomers generally feel insecure, lack self-confidence and face financial problems. \n\nA common cross-border opportunity is represented by a reskilling for a profession, which is currently demanded on the labour market and has a further growth potential; namely – Digital Marketer. Therefore, project overall objective is to design and conduct a Digital Marketing Training Course “Women Online” for target group representatives in order to increase their competitiveness on the labour market and enable them to get a job. The course will last for 5 months, consist of 88 learning hours and encompass 10 cross-border workshops (5 face-to-face and 5 online) and 3 cross-border online master-classes and will be implemented twice: in Round 1 and Round 2. \n\nDuring the workshops, trainees will learn and practice how to develop marketing strategies and translate them into concrete actions according to Sales Funnel principles, generate impactful visual and text content, promote products and services in social networks, launch email campaigns including automated ones, set up a simple webpage using free website constructors, optimise content for search engines (SEO) and build up advertising in Google, \nmonitor and analyse effectiveness of marketing efforts in terms of clients attracted and sales achieved and update them to reach better results, and calculate budgets for marketing activities. \n\nStarting from the 3rd month of the course, participants will also be trained how to find potential employers, approach them with an offer, present own abilities in a confident and persuasive way and answer possible questions. \n\nThe following methods and approaches will be used during the course: \n\n- Well-thought-out combination of theory and practice will be applied.\n\n- Interactions between digital marketing practitioners and trainees will be widely integrated into the course. \n\n- Real digital marketing cases will be analysed at each workshop. \n\n- A special emphasis will be placed on guerrilla marketing, i.e. low-cost and easy-to-implement marketing techniques. Such approach goes beyond the existing practice in the project area.\n\n- As another innovative element, the partners will involve several one-person, micro and small companies in the project. Hands-on exercises will be linked to concrete products and services they offer. Therefore, trainees will be able to test their marketing solutions in a real digital environment and start building a portfolio already during studies. \n\nIn the last month of the course trainees will have a four-week work practice at various employers.\n\nThanks to cross-border cooperation, trainees will benefit from a wider territory they can look for a job in, expand their horizons and develop a broader vision of Digital Marketer’s work, create versatile beginner’s portfolio, enhance a job seeker profile and build contacts in the neighbouring country. Recruitment of a specialist from a neighbouring country also represents a benefit for an employer, as it may simplify promotion of goods or services across the border. \n\nA total of 80 women will be enrolled in the course during 2 rounds. 70 persons will be active participants. Project result directly contributes to Central Baltic Programme result indicator, as reskilling for a demanded Digital Marketer profession along with the employability training would definitely increase competitiveness of Ukrainian women on the labour market.\n\nExercises conducted during events will be compiled into a Training Material Handbook. \n\nProject area is Zemgale, Riga and Riga region in Latvia and Põhja-Eesti region in Estonia.","2023-09-01","2024-11-30","(VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities","RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy","PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights","134 Measures to improve access to employment","N",213469.28,"ERDF",170775.42,80,"At the initial stage of project implementation, on September 14, 2023,  LP held a kick-off meeting in the city of Jelgava (Latvia), which was attended by 12 people: a contact person from the Joint Secretariat of the Central Baltic Programme, representatives of  LP and PP2 and members of the Steering group. During the event, the Programme and project were presented, and members of the Project Management group  and the Steering group were selected. On February 21, 2024, a Project Management group meeting was held in Tallinn. The partners discussed the progress of the project implementation and outlined plans for the next reporting period. \n\nAt the start of the project, project partnres (PPs) worked on the recruitment and selection of Ukrainian women who expressed a desire to participate in the first round of the digital marketing training course. To attract the TGRs, PPs actively disseminated information among social partners, posted it on social networks and sent it to NGOs and social communities.\nLP held an Awareness Raising conference on 7 November, 2023 in Riga and PP2 conducted the event in Tallinn on October 21, 2023. Potential trainees were told about the project, its opportunities, and the training course was introduced in detail. PPs selected fulfilled questionnaires, conducted entry interviews with all wishing to participate in the project and prepared a training course participants list with characteristics (20 participants from each country and 3 persons in reserve). \n\nDuring the first reporting period, LP and PP2 in partnership worked out basic training materials on 8 topics. The training materials combines a description of the theoretical part of the training course events, presentation of practical cases, as well as tasks for individual and group work (in teams of 5-6 people) of the event participants. The training materials will be finalized in the next reporting period, taking into account the experience of their implementation, partner comments and assessment forms of event participants.\n\nIn the first reporting period, partners held 7 thematic seminars on a rotation basis. 4 of them were conducted face to face and 3 online.\nLP prepared and conducted in Riga 2 face-to-face events (November 21, 2023 and January 11, 2024) in Riga, as well as one online seminar (January 25, 2024).\nPP2  prepared and conducted  face-to-face event in Tallinn (14 December 2023) and 3 online seminars (18 January, 15 and 22 February 2024). \nA master class on selling handmade products on Etsy platform was held online on February 29 by LP. The partners ensured the active presence of Ukrainian women from Latvia and Estonia in all the events. Reports on assessment forms filled out at seminars held by PPs demonstrated a very high evaluation of  its by TGRs. As a result, 40 (20+20) Ukrainian women from Latvia and Estonia successfully participated in the events of the first round of the project and increased their competitiveness on the labour market.\n\nLP elaborated communication plan, PPs prepared posters about the project and placed it in a place clearly visible to the public.  Information about the project was also posted on the partner’s websites. The Facebook page was launched and information about the project’s activities regularly was ensured\nhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551227641719\nLP regularly posted information on the on the Project webspace\nhttps://centralbaltic.eu/project/women-online/\n\n","Tallinn, Jelgava","EE, LV",{"$nulls":5},2]

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["CB0300200","Archipelago Remote Services","The Åland Institute of Music","N","partner","Education/training centre and school",null,"FO 0145076-7","Mariehamn","Finland","Mariehamn","Finland"]
["CB0300200","Archipelago Remote Services","The Swedish National Touring Theatre","N","partner","National public authority",null,"SE802006136501","Norsborg","Sweden","Norsborg","Sweden"]
["CB0300176","Growth for FINSWE Film and TV Companies","Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Ltd.","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"2252888-5","Tampere","Finland","Tampere","Finland"]
["CB0300176","Growth for FINSWE Film and TV Companies","Tampere University of Applied Sciences Ltd","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"1015428-1","Tampere","Finland","Tampere","Finland"]
["CB0300176","Growth for FINSWE Film and TV Companies","Swedish Audiovisual Industry Skills","N","partner","Sectoral agency",null,"Org. nr. 802537-4433","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","TALLINN BUSINESS INCUBATORS FOUNDATION","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE101073428","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","Turku University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2528160-3","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"LV40003081501","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","Laurea University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10462161","Vantaa","Finland","Vantaa","Finland","Crowst Oy, IPG Mediabrands Finland Oy , Vision Factory Oy","2718808-2, 2181020-5, 0862268-0"]
["CB0100014","As good as new: Enhancing the behavioral and business change of the second-hand textile industry in the Central Baltic region","Sustainability InnoCenter Ec association","N","partner","Other",null,"SE769626139001","Uppsala","Sweden","Uppsala","Sweden"]
["CB0200036","Improving the role and approaches of the Support system and improving its availability in educational institutions.","Metropolia University of Applied of Sciences (MUAS)","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20945511","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0200036","Improving the role and approaches of the Support system and improving its availability in educational institutions.","Ventspils Education Board","Y","lead","Local public authority",null,"90000052497","Ventspils","Latvia","Ventspils","Latvia"]
["CB0200036","Improving the role and approaches of the Support system and improving its availability in educational institutions.","Narva Language Lyceum","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"75008640","Narva","Estonia","Narva","Estonia"]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","Estonian Fund for Nature","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE100792331 (VAT number); 90001457 (Est regnr)  ","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","Pasaules Dabas Fonds in association with WWF","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"Registration number 40008067839","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte; Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies; Latvijas Biozinatnu un tehnologiju universitate","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"registration number 90000041898","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia"]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","Nyköping Rivers Water Conservation Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE-819000-7222","Nyköping","Sweden","Nyköping","Sweden"]
["CB0300177","Baltic Catchment Officer Project","WWF Sweden","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"Org.nr. 802005-9823","Solna","Sweden","Solna","Sweden"]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"LV40003081501","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","Green and Smart Technology Cluster","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"LV40008160776","Liepaja","Latvia"]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"0245904-2","Lappeenranta","Finland","Lappeenranta","Finland","Solved Oy","FI25413493"]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","Sustainability InnoCenter Ec association","N","partner","Other",null,"SE769626139001","Uppsala County","Sweden","Uppsala County","Sweden"]
["CB0100053","Triple Bottom Line Baltic Impact Accelerator","Cleantech Estonia","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"80397767","Rae vald Harjumaa","Estonia"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","Varsinais-Suomen elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus; Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, South-West Finland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"2296962-1","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","Arcada University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2553871-2","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","County Administrative Board of Östergötland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"202100-2270"," Linköping","Sweden"," Linköping","Sweden","Naturvatten i Roslagen AB, Eurofins Water Testing Sweden, Pelagia Nature & EnvironmentAB, Lanemo Konditori & Bageri, Nordic MasterCar AB, SGS Analytics & Services Swede","556612-6875, 559115–3613, 5566433917, 5568307457, 5566435177, 556152-0916"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","Race For The Baltic","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"802480 – 1303","Stockholm","Sweden",null,null,"Sjöutsikt Sverige AB","SE556466344001"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","John Nurminen Foundation; John Nurminen Foundation","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"0895353-5","Helsinki","Finland",null,null,"Reedfly OÜ","EE101486154"]
["CB0100093","Baltic Sea Coastal Nutrient Management with Reed","Government of Åland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"0145076-7","Mariehamn","Finland","Mariehamn","Finland"]
["CB0100026","Export of breeding materials, know-how and animals to new markets","Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners – Satakunta","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"59.712","Pori","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100026","Export of breeding materials, know-how and animals to new markets","NGO \"Farmers Parliament\"","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008042411","Riga","Latvia",null,"Latvia"]
["CB0100026","Export of breeding materials, know-how and animals to new markets","Eesti Pollumajandus-Kaubanduskoda MTÜ; The Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE100356696","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100026","Export of breeding materials, know-how and animals to new markets","Union of Agricultural Producers of South-West Finland","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"62.787","Raisio","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100119","Enabling growth of Central Baltic SMEs by bridging regional export connections together to accelerate the activities outside EU/EEA area","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"90008258","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia","Dünamo Consult OÜ","16719348"]
["CB0100119","Enabling growth of Central Baltic SMEs by bridging regional export connections together to accelerate the activities outside EU/EEA area","Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Ltd.","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"FI22528885","Tampere","Finland",null,"Finland","Baltic Institute of Finland","1009120-9"]
["CB0100119","Enabling growth of Central Baltic SMEs by bridging regional export connections together to accelerate the activities outside EU/EEA area","Association СLEANTECH LATVIA","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"50008104111","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia","Many supplier names","4100000000"]
["CB0100119","Enabling growth of Central Baltic SMEs by bridging regional export connections together to accelerate the activities outside EU/EEA area","Norrköping Science Park","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE556415140401","Norrköping","Sweden",null,"Sweden"]
["CB0100094","Central Baltic Young Entrepreneurs","Junior Achievement Latvia","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV50008014301","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100094","Central Baltic Young Entrepreneurs","Junior Achievementi Arengufond; JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ESTONIA","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"90000587","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100094","Central Baltic Young Entrepreneurs","Junior Achievement Finland","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"0202391-9","Helsinki","Finland",null,null,"Matkatoimisto Heta","2320154-2"]
["CB0300222","Creative Digital Growth BOOSTER","Tartu Science Park Foundation","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE 100296086","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0300222","Creative Digital Growth BOOSTER","LAB University of Applied Sciences Ltd.","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI 26306446","Lahti","Finland","Lahti","Finland"]
["CB0300222","Creative Digital Growth BOOSTER","South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd - Xamk","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24729082","Kotka","Finland","Kotka","Finland"]
["CB0300222","Creative Digital Growth BOOSTER","Swedish Game Industry Foundation","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE 556689933101","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0500264","Creative Youth Cross-Border Tartu-Tampere Entrepreneurship Training Bridge","Suomen Itämeri-instituutti; The Baltic Institute of Finland","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"FI10091209","Tampere","Finland","Tampere","Finland"]
["CB0500264","Creative Youth Cross-Border Tartu-Tampere Entrepreneurship Training Bridge","Foundation Tartu Centre for Creative Industries","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"EE101504586","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0100058","Development of joint circular solutions in the CB restaurant sector","Vidzeme Planning Region; Vidzeme planning region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"90002180246","Cēsis, Cēsu novads","Latvia","Cēsis, Cēsu novads","Latvia"]
["CB0100058","Development of joint circular solutions in the CB restaurant sector","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland","Vida Design","1234568"]
["CB0100058","Development of joint circular solutions in the CB restaurant sector","Organic Food Centre","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE802404176901","Tyresö","Sweden"]
["CB0100058","Development of joint circular solutions in the CB restaurant sector","Pyhajarvi Institute","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI07733514","Eura","Finland"]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Region Uppsala","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"SE232100002401","Uppsala","Sweden","Uppsala","Sweden"]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Balti Uuringute Instituut; Institute of Baltic Studies","N","partner","Other",null,"EE100560275","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Laurea University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"VAT FI10462161","Vantaa","Finland"," Hyvinkää","Finland","HyTe ry","1953125-8"]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Riga Technical University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000068977","Riga ","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100070","Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women seeking Employment","Zemgale Planning region; Zemgale Planning Region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"registration number 90002182529 ","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia"]
["CB0500248","CoMe Stronger - Elderly men go to the museum","Turku University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25281603","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0500248","CoMe Stronger - Elderly men go to the museum","University of Tartu; Tartu Ülikool; UNIVERSITY OF TARTU","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100030417","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0500277","Empowering female creative entrepreneurs in the age group 40+","Ida-Viru Entrepreneurship Centre","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"90003367","Jõhvi","Estonia","Jõhvi","Estonia"]
["CB0500277","Empowering female creative entrepreneurs in the age group 40+","Vidzeme Planning Region; Vidzeme planning region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"90002180246","Cesis","Latvia","Cesis","Latvia"]
["CB0400179","CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS NAVIGATING THE JOB MARKET: SKILL-BUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL PEER LEARNING FOR ADDED AGENCY","Trade Union for Art and Culture Professionals TAKU","N","partner","N.a.",null,"0743087-1","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0400179","CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS NAVIGATING THE JOB MARKET: SKILL-BUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL PEER LEARNING FOR ADDED AGENCY","Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture Secretariat","Y","lead","N.a.",null,"LV985","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0400179","CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS NAVIGATING THE JOB MARKET: SKILL-BUILDING AND TRANSNATIONAL PEER LEARNING FOR ADDED AGENCY","Tallinn Business Inkubaators","N","partner","N.a.",null,"90009231","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0500257","Cultural and linguistic differences in labour market","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0500257","Cultural and linguistic differences in labour market","VitaTiim (Non-formal learning centre)","Y","lead","Education/training centre and school",null,"Reg no: 80258801","Narva","Estonia"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","University of Tartu; Tartu Ülikool; UNIVERSITY OF TARTU","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100030417","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","University of Gävle","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100289001","Gävle","Sweden","Gävle","Sweden"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","Metropolia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20945511","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","Pärnu City Government; City of Pärnu","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"75000064","Pärnu","Estonia","Pärnu","Estonia"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","Riga Technical University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000068977","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","Riga City Council","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"LV90011524360","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","Municipality of Gävle; Gävle municipality","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"SE2120002338","Gävle","Sweden","Gävle","Sweden"]
["CB0300173","Cycle4Climate: Co-creating Sustainable Cycling Solutions for Reducing CO2 Emissions in the Central Baltic Region","City of Espoo","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"0101263-6","ESPOON KAUPUNKI","Finland","ESPOON KAUPUNKI","Finland"]
["CB0400165","Equal Access and Support in the Workforce for migrants and refugees","University of Tartu; Tartu Ülikool; UNIVERSITY OF TARTU","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"Registration code: 74001073","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0400165","Equal Access and Support in the Workforce for migrants and refugees","Deacones Foundation","N","partner","Other",null,"0116480-8","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0400165","Equal Access and Support in the Workforce for migrants and refugees","Arcada University of Applied Sciences; Arcada - Nylands svenska yrkeshögskola","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"2553871-2","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0500259","Employment Development and Growth for Refugees in Estonia and Latvia","Shelter \"Safe House\"","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008117716","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0500259","Employment Development and Growth for Refugees in Estonia and Latvia","Estonian Refugee Council","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"N.a.","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0400224","Expertise from Experience - training users to become experts in web accessibility","The Åland Islands Disability Rights Federation","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"0835395-1","Mariehamn","Finland"]
["CB0400224","Expertise from Experience - training users to become experts in web accessibility","Funka Foundation","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"802452366","Åkersberga","Sweden"]
["CB0100105","Empowering scale-up of CB tech-sector companies","DIMECC Ltd.","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI21790304","Tampere","Finland"]
["CB0100105","Empowering scale-up of CB tech-sector companies","Latvian IT Cluster/Digital Innovation Hub","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008121251","Rīga","Latvia",null,null,"SIA XYZ Combinator","N/A"]
["CB0100105","Empowering scale-up of CB tech-sector companies","Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE100556467","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Enterprising Archipelago; Företagsam Skärgård rf","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"2107903-7","Jomala","Finland"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Soomaa Tourism Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80284744","Tori alevik","Estonia"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Estonian University of Life Sciences; Estonia Maaülikool","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100018015","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Gauja National Park Tourism Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008050743","Sigulda","Latvia"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Kehittämisyhdistys Sepra ry; Development Association Sepra; Development Association Sepra","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI15049376","Hamina","Finland"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","NGO Ökokuller","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80406220","Kolgaküla, Kuusalu vald, Harjumaa","Estonia"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","Municipality of Söderhamn; Municipality of Söderhamn","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"SE212000235301","Söderhamn","Sweden","Söderhamn","Sweden"]
["CB0300167","Enhanced Employment Opportunities in Rural Areas","University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0300209","Boosting the Central Baltic cleantech exports to Japan","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100855346","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0300209","Boosting the Central Baltic cleantech exports to Japan","Green Net Finland","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"FI17277567","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0300243","Gateway to Global Markets","LIMOWA Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI22012897","Hyvinkää","Finland"]
["CB0300243","Gateway to Global Markets","South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24729082","Kouvola","Finland","Kouvola","Finland"]
["CB0300243","Gateway to Global Markets","Estonian Supply Chain Association PROLOG","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE101509442","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0300168","Three countries, two markets, one goal – a joint export project to the UK and US healthcare markets","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"90008258","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0300168","Three countries, two markets, one goal – a joint export project to the UK and US healthcare markets","Swecare","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"802008-2197","Stockholm","Sweden",null,"Sweden"]
["CB0300168","Three countries, two markets, one goal – a joint export project to the UK and US healthcare markets","Business Turku Ltd.","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI23223231","Turku","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Latvian Information Technology cluster","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008121251","Riga","Latvia",null,"Latvia"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Turku Science Park Ltd","Y","lead",null,null,null,"Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Oy","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI22528885","Tampere","Finland",null,"Finland","Tespack Oy","FI25347668"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100855346","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","Business Turku Ltd.","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"2322323-1","Turku","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100145","Promoting exports to International NGOs","RISE Research Institute of Sweden","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"556464-6874","Stockholm","Sweden",null,"Sweden"]
["CB0100107","Increasing international sales in the intelligent and sustainable mobility sectors of Estonia and Finland","ITS Finland","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"FI20366413","Helsinki","Finland",null,null,"Glasgow Research & Consulting","646110"]
["CB0100107","Increasing international sales in the intelligent and sustainable mobility sectors of Estonia and Finland","Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"EE100556467","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia","Glasgow Research & Consulting","646110"]
["CB0100049","Joint support network for export development from Finland, Estonia, Latvia to Azerbaijan.","Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"LV40003081501","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia","Caspian Energy Club Internatio","1506442851"]
["CB0100049","Joint support network for export development from Finland, Estonia, Latvia to Azerbaijan.","Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Eesti Kaubandus-Tööstuskoda","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100559448","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100049","Joint support network for export development from Finland, Estonia, Latvia to Azerbaijan.","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"  FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Rauma","Finland","Compass Group Finland Oy","FI08736979"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Riga Technical University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000068977","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Riga City Council City Development Department; Rīgas domes Pilsētas attīstības departaments","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"LV90011524360","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Municipality of Söderhamn; Municipality of Söderhamn","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"SE212000235301","Söderhamn","Sweden","Söderhamn","Sweden"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Porin kaupunki; City of Pori; City of Pori","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"FI01373239","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland","Ramboll Oy, BK-Hydrometa Oy, KVVY Tutkimus Oy","0101197-5, 2403636-6, FI2823750-1"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Tallinn Urban Environment and Public Works Department","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"75014913","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia","OÜ Reaalprojekt","EE100713116"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Tallinn University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100224841","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"EE100835706"]
["CB0100018","Multidimensional storm water treatment in urban areas for cleaner Baltic Sea","Viimsi Municipality Government; Viimsi Municipality","Y","lead","Local public authority",null,"75021250","Viimsi","Estonia","Viimsi","Estonia"]
["CB0100030","Exporting Baltic Nature Tourism to UK","Latvian Country Tourism Association \"Lauku ceļotājs\"; Latvijas Lauku turisma asociacija \"Lauku celotajs\"; Latvian Country Tourism Association \"Lauku celotajs\"","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008005627","Tome parish, Ogre region","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100030","Exporting Baltic Nature Tourism to UK","Latvian Nature Tourism Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008300783","Ogre, Ogres nov.","Latvia",null,"Latvia"]
["CB0100030","Exporting Baltic Nature Tourism to UK","Estonian Nature Tourism Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80547439","Lihula. Lääneranna municipality, Pärnu county","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100030","Exporting Baltic Nature Tourism to UK","NGO Estonian Rural Tourism","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80122220","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100124","Northbound Scaleups","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100855346","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia","Civitta Eesti AS, ESTRAVEL AS, Valgusetooja OÜ, Stoyan Consult ApS, Miltton New Nordics OÜ, Advokaadibüroo TRINITI OÜ, Brandnewday OÜ","11092241, 10325720, 14303721, 38208551, 14618181, 11984324, 14243462"]
["CB0100124","Northbound Scaleups","Business Turku Ltd.","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"FI23223231","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100124","Northbound Scaleups","Turku Science Park Ltd","Y","lead",null,null,null,"Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100124","Northbound Scaleups","Movexum AB","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE556765009701","Gävle","Sweden",null,null,"Lingmerths resebyrå AB, 3H partners ltd t/a","SE556054274701, 10829227"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","University of Turku; University of Turku","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458963","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Suomenlinnan Liikenne Oy","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"FI01144823","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100070401","Linköping","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Government of Åland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"FO-0145076-7","Mariehamn","Finland","Mariehamn","Finland"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Estonian State Fleet","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null," EE102630242","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia","Baltic Workboats AS","10657801"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Finland Archipelago Shipping Ltd","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"2199546-5 ","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","AS Kihnu Veeteed","N","partner","SME",null,"EE100763700","Kihnu vald, Pärnumaa","Estonia","Kihnu vald, Pärnumaa","Estonia"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Blidösundsbolaget AB","N","partner","SME",null,"VAT5565334231SE","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0300186","Reducing CO2 emissions in island ferry traffic","Tallinn University of Technology","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100224841","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100071","Retrieval, recycling, and preventive actions for abandoned recreational fishing gear in the central Baltic Sea","Finnish Environmental Institute","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI09961895","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland","Juha Stolt","1598755-7"]
["CB0100071","Retrieval, recycling, and preventive actions for abandoned recreational fishing gear in the central Baltic Sea","University of Tartu; Tartu Ülikool; UNIVERSITY OF TARTU","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100030417 ","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia","RAGN-SELLS AS, OÜ Meritel","EE100167089, EE101699514\t"]
["CB0100071","Retrieval, recycling, and preventive actions for abandoned recreational fishing gear in the central Baltic Sea","Pidä Saaristo siistinä ry; Keep the Archipelago Tidy","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI05333154","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100071","Retrieval, recycling, and preventive actions for abandoned recreational fishing gear in the central Baltic Sea","Keep Sweden Tidy","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE802010‐918001","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden","Trickle AB,  Svensk SjöentreprenadMalmö AB","559163-3465 ,  556223-2172"]
["CB0500256","Region of opportunities: entrepreneurship training course for long-term unemployed women with children who represent the largest national minorities in Latvia and Estonia","Estonian Business School foundation","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE102432330","Tallinn, Harjumaa","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0500256","Region of opportunities: entrepreneurship training course for long-term unemployed women with children who represent the largest national minorities in Latvia and Estonia","Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte; Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies; Latvijas Biozinatnu un tehnologiju universitate","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000041898","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia"]
["CB0300169","Solutions for age-friendly employer","Tallinn University Haapsalu College; Tallinn University Haapsalu College","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100251335","Tallinn","Estonia","Haapsalu","Estonia"]
["CB0300169","Solutions for age-friendly employer","Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being","N","partner","International organisation, EEIG",null,"934003-4041","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0300169","Solutions for age-friendly employer","Metropolia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20945511","Helsinki","Finland","-","Finland"]
["CB0300169","Solutions for age-friendly employer","Golden League","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE101660637","Tuulna küla","Estonia"]
["CB0100106","Enabling scaling through corporate-scaleup commercial collaborations.","SISP Service & Development AB","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE556858183801","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0100106","Enabling scaling through corporate-scaleup commercial collaborations.","Turku Science Park Ltd; Turku Science Park Oy","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"2322323-1","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100106","Enabling scaling through corporate-scaleup commercial collaborations.","TALLINN SCIENCE PARK TEHNOPOL FOUNDATION; Tallinn Science Park Foundation (TEHNOPOL)","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"EE100855346","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100106","Enabling scaling through corporate-scaleup commercial collaborations.","Norrköping Science Park","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE5564151404","Norrköping","Sweden","Norrköping","Sweden","Tello Gruppen","SE556056396601"]
["CB0500266","Silver Talent Skillset","Metropolia University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20945511","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0500266","Silver Talent Skillset","Tallinn University of Technology","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100224841","Tallinn","Estonia","Johtla-Järve","Estonia"]
["CB0300234","Stronger together towards a more inclusive labour market","Coompanion Östergötland Economic Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"716426-2813","Norrköping","Sweden","Norrköping","Sweden"]
["CB0300234","Stronger together towards a more inclusive labour market","Valmiera Development Agency","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008054745","Valmiera","Latvia","Valmiera","Latvia"]
["CB0300234","Stronger together towards a more inclusive labour market","The Samaritan Association of Latvia","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008001803","Rīga","Latvia","Valmiera","Latvia"]
["CB0100112","Generating scaleups through a growth program by linking innovations in the smart city network","Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Ltd.","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"FI22528885","Tampere","Finland",null,null,"Baltic Institute of Finland, HippoMeter","1009120-9, FI2428924"]
["CB0100112","Generating scaleups through a growth program by linking innovations in the smart city network","Tartu Science Park; Tartu Science Park","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100296086","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0100112","Generating scaleups through a growth program by linking innovations in the smart city network","Norrköping Science Park","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE556415140401","Norrköping","Sweden",null,null,"Big Travel, Tello Gruppen","SE556260283801, SE556056396601"]
["CB0100047","Entrepreneurship Simulation Program for Silver Economy in Central Baltic","Tampere University of Applied Sciences Ltd","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10154281"," Tampere ","Finland"," Tampere ","Finland"]
["CB0100047","Entrepreneurship Simulation Program for Silver Economy in Central Baltic","Latvian Adult Education Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008005805","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100047","Entrepreneurship Simulation Program for Silver Economy in Central Baltic","Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"40003081501","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100047","Entrepreneurship Simulation Program for Silver Economy in Central Baltic","Folkuniversitetet stiftelsen kursverksamheten vid Uppsala universitet","N","partner","Education/training centre and school",null,"SE817600705501","Uppsala","Sweden","Uppsala","Sweden"]
["CB0100046","Joint Strategies for Companies in Silver Economy: Attracting and Retaining Silver Age Employees","Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"40003081501","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100046","Joint Strategies for Companies in Silver Economy: Attracting and Retaining Silver Age Employees","Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE100559448","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100046","Joint Strategies for Companies in Silver Economy: Attracting and Retaining Silver Age Employees","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","Association Creative Ideas","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"50008184511","Riga","Latvia",null,"Latvia"]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","Reach for Change Latvia","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"40008314815","Riga","Latvia",null,"Latvia","SIA \"Yes Agency\", SIA \"Design elevator\" , SIA \"City Hotels\", SIA \"POLYGLOT tulkojumi\", SIA \"Zimini\"","40203486651, 40103641784, 40203303907, 40103497979, 40103967644"]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","Reach for Change Latvia","Y","lead",null,null,null,"Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI24729082","Mikkeli","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100057","Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia","Lahti Diaconia Foundation","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"0205519-5","Lahti","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717","Helsingin Yliopisto (Helsinki)","Finland","Lahti","Finland"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","Smiltene Municipality","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"Registration number 90009067337","Smiltene","Latvia",null,"Latvia","RE Mērnieks, SIA, BIOR","1545.60, LV90009235333"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","Union of Harju County Municipalities (HOL)","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"EE101356705","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","Tallinn University of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100224841","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","City of Lahti; City of Lahti","Y","lead","Local public authority",null,"FI01496693 ","Lahti","Finland",null,"Finland","Sitowise Oy","FI23354450"]
["CB0100091","Stormwater purification with construction and demolition waste","LUT University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02459042","Lappeenranta","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","Region Östergötland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"SE232100-0040","Linköping","Sweden","Linköping","Sweden"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","AB Östgötatrafiken","Y","lead","Local public authority",null,"SE556038895001","Linköping","Sweden","Linköping","Sweden","Energikontor Syd","556713-0116"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","Rgas Plnoanas reions.; Riga Planning Region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"Registration no. 90002222018","Latvia","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","Kurzeme Planning Region; Kurzeme Planning Region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"Reg.no. 90002183562","Saldus","Latvia","Saldus","Latvia"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","Linköping university; Linköping University (LiU)","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"Organisation number 202100–3096","Linköping","Sweden","Norrköping","Sweden"]
["CB0100064","Sustainable Rural Mobility","The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute","N","partner","National public authority",null,"SE202100070401","Linköping","Sweden","Linköping","Sweden"]
["CB0300214","Succeed in Business – complex entrepreneurship training for young people 18-25 years old, who come from low-income families and reside in Latvia, Estonia and Finland","Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte; Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies; Latvijas Biozinatnu un tehnologiju universitate","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000041898","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia"]
["CB0300214","Succeed in Business – complex entrepreneurship training for young people 18-25 years old, who come from low-income families and reside in Latvia, Estonia and Finland","Association of Municipalities of Tartu County","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"80190322","Tartu","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0300214","Succeed in Business – complex entrepreneurship training for young people 18-25 years old, who come from low-income families and reside in Latvia, Estonia and Finland","Tampere University of Applied Sciences Ltd","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI10154281","Tampere","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Tallinn Technical University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100224841","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Fintraffic VTS ltd","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"2945246-5","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Swedish Confederation of Transport Enterprises","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"556498-9373","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Rauma","Finland"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","International Transport Development Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008250637","Jaunmarupe","Latvia","Jaunmarupe","Latvia"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Swedish Maritime Administration","N","partner","National public authority",null,"SE202100065401","Norrköping","Sweden","Norrköping","Sweden"]
["CB0100021","Sustainable flow of goods and decreased CO2 emissions of transportation","Aland University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"0145076-7","Mariehamn","Finland","Mariehamn","Finland"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"70000869","Jõgeva","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","Estonian University of Life Sciences; Estonia Maaülikool","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100018015","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia","Baltic Tours AS","EE100186031 "]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","ProAgria Western Finland","N","partner","Other",null,"101423638","Pori","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","Natural Resources Institute Finland","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02446292","Helsinki","Finland","Jokioinen","Finland"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte; Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies; Latvijas Biozinatnu un tehnologiju universitate","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000041898","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia","DU agentura LHI","LV90002129621"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","NGO \"Farmers Parliament\"","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008042411","Riga","Latvia",null,"Latvia"]
["CB0100103","Sustainable nutrient management in silage production","Eesti Pollumajandus-Kaubanduskoda MTÜ; The Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE100356696","Tallinn","Estonia",null,"Estonia"]
["CB0100153","Take the Challenge! – established and promoted employment opportunities in timber framing on the labour market in Baltics","Bulduri Horticultural School","Y","lead",null,null,null,"Jūrmala","Latvia"]
["CB0100153","Take the Challenge! – established and promoted employment opportunities in timber framing on the labour market in Baltics","NGO Vanaajamaja","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80030854","Mooste, Põlva county","Estonia","Mooste, Põlva county","Estonia"]
["CB0100153","Take the Challenge! – established and promoted employment opportunities in timber framing on the labour market in Baltics","Bulduri Technical school","Y","lead","Education/training centre and school",null,"40003482021","Jurmala","Latvia","Jurmala","Latvia","Priežavoti SIA","LV40003463887"]
["CB0500279","The Franchise Academy - a complex four-month business training program for NEET young people.","Swedish Franchise Association","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"802013-1465","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0500279","The Franchise Academy - a complex four-month business training program for NEET young people.","Estonian Franchise Association","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80631536","Paide","Estonia","Paide","Estonia"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Vidzemes Augstskola; Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90001342592","Valmiera","Latvia","Valmiera","Latvia","Laura","0.24"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Pärnumaa Vocational Education Centre","N","partner","National public authority",null,"EE100847053","Pärnu","Estonia"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Satakunta Employment and Economic Development Office","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"2296962-1","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Tartu Vocational College","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100786499","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null," FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0100003","Improving young people employment opportunities in the CB tourism, hospitality, and restaurant sectors","Kurzeme Planning Region; Kurzeme Planning Region","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"90002183562","Saldus","Latvia","Saldus","Latvia","Piektdien Piektajā Piecos","90003723829427"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Coompanion Roslagen & Norrort cooperative","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE769626311501","Norrtälje","Sweden"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","University of Turku; University of Turku","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI02458963","Turun yliopisto","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Latvijas Universitate; University of Latvia","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000076669","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Estonian University of Life Sciences; Estonia Maaülikool","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100018015","Tartu","Estonia",null,null,"OxyGuard International A/S, OÜ Miridon","CVR nr.: 13 18 44 88, EE100039450"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Campus Roslagen AB","N","partner","Other",null,"SE556194-605301","Norrtälje","Sweden","Norrtälje","Sweden"]
["CB0100007","TRANSborder cooperation for circular soil-less FARMing systems","Norrtälje Vatten och Avfall","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"559269-3567","Norrtälje","Sweden"]
["CB0500281","Upskilling Immigrants for Business Planning and Entrepreneurship using AI Technologies","Phoenix ry","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI27659753","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0500281","Upskilling Immigrants for Business Planning and Entrepreneurship using AI Technologies","Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences; HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20291888","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0500281","Upskilling Immigrants for Business Planning and Entrepreneurship using AI Technologies","Estonian Refugee Council","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"N.a.","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","Sateenkaari Koto ry","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"1468795-8","Turku","Finland",null,"Finland"]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","Region Östergötland, Refugee Health Centre","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"SE232100004001","Norrköping","Sweden","Norrköping","Sweden"]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","County Administrative Board of Östergötland","N","partner","National public authority",null,"202100-2270","Linköping","Sweden","Linköping","Sweden"]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","Turku University of Applied Sciences","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI25281603","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland","KMG/Printworks Finland, Verkkokauppa.com","FI15150239, FI14563445"]
["CB0100043","Virtual integration home - promoting inclusion and empowerment digitally","Turun kaupunki; Municipality of Turku","N","partner","Local public authority",null,"0204819-8","Turku","Finland","Turku","Finland"]
["CB0100108","Woman & Entrepreneur Creating Business","STARTcentrum Social Impact","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"SE769633743001","Örebro","Sweden","Örebro","Sweden"]
["CB0100108","Woman & Entrepreneur Creating Business","Impact Hub","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"LV40008251825","Liepāja","Latvia","Liepāja","Latvia"]
["CB0100108","Woman & Entrepreneur Creating Business","Foundation Tartu Centre for Creative Industries","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"EE101504586","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0400223","Women Go Tech","Riga Tech Girls","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008250980","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0400223","Women Go Tech","Smartwork","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80251762","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia","SIA International Tuition Cent","LV40103978328 "]
["CB0500268","Water safety methodology for young people of Estonia and Latvia","Watergratt Pirita NGO","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"80376088","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0500268","Water safety methodology for young people of Estonia and Latvia","Latvian Beach Life-guard Assicoacion","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"LV40008144786","Jurmala","Latvia","Jurmala","Latvia"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","Riga Technical University","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000068977","Riga","Latvia","Riga","Latvia"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","Liepaja Water","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"LV42103000897","Liepaja","Latvia","Liepaja","Latvia"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","Royal Institute of Technology","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"SE202100305401","Stockholm","Sweden","Stockholm","Sweden"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","AS Valga Vesi","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"EE100491030","Valga","Estonia","Valga","Estonia"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","Estonian University of Life Sciences; Estonia Maaülikool","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100018015","Tartu","Estonia","Tartu","Estonia"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","County Administrative Board of Östergötland","N","partner","Regional public authority",null,"SE202100227001","Linköping","Sweden","Linköping","Sweden"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","The Association for Water and Environment of Western Uusimaa","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"FI02139604","Lohja","Finland","Lohja","Finland"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI03134717","Helsinki","Finland","Lammi","Finland"]
["CB0300189","WaterShed Safety Plan for controlling diffuse pollution","Häme University of Applied Sciences Ltd.","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI26174893","Hämeenlinna","Finland","13100","Finland"]
["CB0400204","Women Online – digital marketing training for immigrant women from Ukraine in Latvia and Estonia","Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte; Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies; Latvijas Biozinatnu un tehnologiju universitate","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90000041898","Jelgava","Latvia","Jelgava","Latvia","SIA Averoja, SIA RIXCO","LV40003305784, LV43603017555"]
["CB0400204","Women Online – digital marketing training for immigrant women from Ukraine in Latvia and Estonia","Eesti People to People","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null," 80014329","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","TTK University of Applied Sciences; Tallinna Tehnikakörgkool","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"EE100247336","Tallinn","Estonia"]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","Satakunta University of Applied Sciences; Satakunta University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI23889244","Pori","Finland","Pori","Finland"]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","Vidzemes Augstskola; Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences","N","partner","Higher education and research organisations",null,"LV90001342592","Valmiera","Latvia"]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","Federation of the Finnish Woodworking Industries","N","partner","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"0201935-4","Helsinki","Finland",null,null,"Tovari Oy, Lingsoft Language Services Oy","FI26243852, FI09610307"]
["CB0100085","Increasing the competitiveness of youngsters under 25 in woodhouse industry","Estonian Woodhouse Association","Y","lead","Interest groups including NGOs",null,"EE101310916","Tallinn","Estonia",null,null,"OÜ Teooria, Estfilm Production PÜ, OÜ Nordic Render","EE101467186, EE101142663, EE102691294"]
["CB0500280","Central Baltic Region youth trying different professions","Impact Hub","Y","lead","Business support organisation",null,"40008251825","Liepāja","Latvia"]
["CB0500280","Central Baltic Region youth trying different professions","STARTcentrum Social Impact ekonomisk förening","N","partner","Business support organisation",null,"SE769633743001"," Örebro","Sweden"]
["CB0300225","Scaleup and Innovation Program for Scaling up Sustainable Companies","Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences; HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu","Y","lead","Higher education and research organisations",null,"FI20291888","Helsinki","Finland","Helsinki","Finland"]
["CB0300225","Scaleup and Innovation Program for Scaling up Sustainable Companies","Foundation Tallinn Science Park TEHNOPOL; Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol","N","partner","Infrastructure and (public) service provider",null,"EE100855346","Tallinn","Estonia","Tallinn","Estonia"]