North Sea Baltic Connector of Regions

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Description

Description (EN):

The project aims to improve the sustainable accessibility of the Eastern Baltic Sea Region to freight and passenger transport. It underlines the importance to link the input from transport operators and the business sector to the improvement of interoperability and proposes their view on measures needed to remove bottlenecks in border crossing areas. The project aims to improve the sustainable accessibility of the Eastern Baltic Sea Region (EBSR) to freight and passenger transport. The project will contribute to the EU TEN-T Transport Infrastructure Policy, that connects the continent between East and West, North and South, by taking its implementation to the regional and local level connecting the TEN-T core network corridor (CNC) of North Sea Baltic to its catchment area and access routes in EBSR. The project will implement the TEN-T Policy from a regional development perspective and bring the needs of peripheral regions to the CNC context. Project activities consist of logistics, long distance commuter services, transnational community building and transport branding. In logistics the project underlines the importance to link the input from transport operators and the business sector to the improvement of interoperability and proposes their view on measures needed to remove bottlenecks in border crossing areas. In long distance commuting the project underlines the need to synchronize long distance transport to urban transport systems. This includes both infrastructure and ITS solutions that are developed on selected major commuting corridors. In ITS, the project operates as a platform for transnational applications to locally operating services. The outputs will contribute to interoperability by bringing the transport operators’ viewpoint and ITS solutions into logistics and passenger transport development on a transnational level. In policymaking, the project brings a transnational perspective into spatial planning in transport, as these are often carried out in little synchronization between countries. The project produces a joint transnational vision of regional development with recommendations for policymakers in passenger and freight transport. The vision connects the second level nodes and access routes to CNC and improves the position of cross border areas. The role of urban nodes remains crucial as service points between CNC and remote areas. In branding, the project uses the mega project of Rail Baltica as a case. The case highlights the political decision making process of the infrastructure project and stakeholders’ relations as a multilevel governance structure. The data of the Rail Baltica case is used to build a branding model for Rail Baltica among its stakeholders. The case data is also used to increase awareness of the future rail service as part of a multimodal transport system among potential passengers and business users. The project is part of the implementation of the NSB CNC work plan via the Corridor Forum in which Member States, infrastructure managers and regions communicate with the European Commission and European Coordinator. The project operates as the transnational cooperation platform in spatial and transport planning and communicates the outputs of grass root level activities to policymakers on regional, national and EU levels. The activity of transnational roundtable meetings brings the project's outputs to wider distribution among policymakers, transport operators and users.

Achievements (EN):

Joint vision developed: In the project NSB-CoRe, local, regional and national authorities and other experts from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany developed a joint transnational spatial vision on regional development, logistics and mobility of the North Sea Baltic corridor. The corridor is a transport and development corridor, stretching from Germany to Sweden: Hamburg – Berlin – Warsaw – Kaunas – Riga – Tallinn – Helsinki – Vaasa – Umeå. Towards better connectivity: The vision sets out how the North Sea Baltic corridor should look like in 2050: territories along the eastern and southern coast of the Baltic Sea will be better integrated and accessible, and in this way disparities between western and eastern coast of the Baltic Sea will be reduced. The region will be an attractive living environment made up of a network of interlinked metopolises, regional centres and rural territories with efficient transport systems operating between them. The vision document encourages spatial and transport planners and other involved authorities to discuss spatial planning processes jointly on different levels, and includes recommendations on e.g. increasing cooperation between sectors and countries. Spatial planning in focus: With EUR 2.60 million support from the European Union, the project NSB CoRe created a vision on how to achieve better connectivity in southern and eastern parts of the Baltic Sea region. Work on the vision and its implementation is continued in the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project platform BSR Access, which facilitates innovative and sustainable in the region. Moreover, the Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea (VASAB) with its wide network and others use the vision in further planning of spatial development in the Baltic Sea region and raising awareness among municipalities in the North Sea Baltic Corridor about potential and benefits from the TEN-T core network development.

Themes

Multimodal transport Regional planning and development Improving transport connections

Specific Objective: ‘Interoperability of transport modes’: To increase interoperability in transporting goods and persons in north-south and east-west connections based on increased capacity of transport actors

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07b) enhancing regional mobility by connecting secondary and tertiary nodes to TEN-T infrastructure, including multimodal nodes

Partners

Lead Partner: Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council

Address: FI-00240 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: n/a

Summary

Project name (EN): North Sea Baltic Connector of Regions

Project acronym: NSB CoRe

Period: 2014-2020

Date of latest update: 2022-04-30

Website: http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html

Project start date: 2016-05-01

Project end date: 2019-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 306 682.06

European Union funding: EUR 2 602 097.88

Co-financing sources: ERDF

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSBSR

EUSBSR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:

EUSBSR Degree of compliance:

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

NSB Core – North Sea Baltic Connector of Regions - Uudenmaan liitto

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/nsb-core/

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Reports

TOWARDS Joint transnational SPATIAL VISION on regional development, logistics and mobility of the North Sea Baltic corridor 2050

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/nsb-core/

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

NSB CoRe Interconnectivity and Interoperability Policy Paper

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/nsb-core/

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-06-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

NSB CoRe Growth Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

LOGISTICS REQUIREMENT OF SHIPPERS AND THEIR COMMITMENT FOR INTERMODAL SUPPLY CHAINS ON NSB CORRIDOR

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-02-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report Finland

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report Riga, LATVIA

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2017-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report, Estonia

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report, Germany

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report, Lithuania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Round Table local meeting report: Poland

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Review on stakeholders’ cooperation in supply chains - STATE OF THE ART report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-09-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Identification, categorization, and ranking of barriers, bottlenecks, and business needs for intermodal logistics along the NSB corridor

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Nodal point infrastructure analysis - AS IS ANALYSIS report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

NSB CoRe Growth Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-08-15

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Definition of Assessment Indicators and Criteria - Summary of assessment indicators and criteria for nodal point infrastructure

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2017-04-27

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Nodal points benchmarking analysis within the NSB Corridor

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-05

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Recommendations and Action Plan for Intermodal Nodal Point development

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-02-15

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Recommendations for information system developers

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-07-16

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Review of the ICT solutions supporting intermodal transport sector

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-04-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

NSB CoRe Interconnectivity and Interoperability Policy Paper

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-06-19

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Case Study: Freight Flows shift from road to railway transport for optimization of TEN-T corridor North Sea - Baltic Sea

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Case Study: NSB CoRe KVARKEN - Making NSB more attractive, enlarging labour pool, better connected, wealthier

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-05-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Memorandum of Understanding on the needs and aims for the development of the Berlin-Poznań-Warsaw-Białystok Commuting Growth Corridor - Conclusions

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Memorandum of Understanding on the needs and aims for the development of the Berlin-Poznań-Warsaw-Białystok Commuting Growth Corridor - Input paper

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of potential for capacity optimazation of the railway line Berlin - Frankfurt (Oder) – Rzepin tomeet evolving needs of the growth of regional, long-distance and rail freight transport along the TEN-T core network corridor (CNC) North Sea – Baltic

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Strategy Paper Towards frequent, reliable and integrated long-distance services along the Berlin – Poznań – Warsaw – Białystok Commuting Growth Corridor

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Spatial analysis survey for North Sea – Baltic corridor (Estonia – Latvia – Lithuania section)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Spatial structure and the transport system along Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas commuting growth corridor

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2017-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Case Study: FEASIBILITY STUDY OF „PARK & RIDE“ STRATEGY FOR KAUNAS RAILWAY STATION

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Identifying future scenarios of transport development along Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas corridor

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/nsbcore

Publication date: 2022-03-30

Document date: 2019-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council

North Sea Baltic Connector of Regions

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2022-08-16

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

200 / 200 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

248 / 3 100 (8%)

Notes on the data

Data was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2019-05-24 and 2021-05-25. A part of project budgets have been provided by the Baltic Sea programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30.

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