Coherent Linear Infrastructures in Baltic Maritime Spatial Plans

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

The project seeks to increase transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors in Maritime Spatial Plans (MSP) in the Baltic Sea Region. This will prevent cross border mismatches and secures transnational connectivity, as well as efficient use of Baltic Sea space. The project helps develop the most appropriate framework conditions for Blue Growth activities (e.g. maritime transportation, offshore energy exploitation, coastal tourism etc.) for the coming 15 years, thereby increasing investors’ security. A precondition for this is to create institutional capacities of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) bodies. Based on past experiences and a sector involvement strategy a structured and coordinated involvement process with relevant national/transnational stakeholder fora will be carried out in close cooperation with stakeholders from the shipping and the energy industry. Project partners will find out about requirements for MSP of the shipping and energy sector (based on forecasted economic, environmental, technological and land-sea related developments) and their spatial implications. The information gathered will be visualised in scenarios with the help of the MSP Challenge, a computer supported simulation game based on accurate data and feedback that gives maritime spatial planners insight in the diverse challenges of sustainable planning of human activities in the marine and coastal ecosystem. The project will improve access to relevant transnational MSP data needed for making spatial allocations for shipping and energy users in MSP by piloting the first ever BSR MSP data infrastructure. This infrastructure will allow for decentralised storage and access of MSP data beyond the project’s lifetime, and may be expanded to other sectors. In order to come up with planning solutions, maritime spatial planners will identify transnational cross sectoral planning issues. Planners will jointly agree on planning criteria, taking into account sector requirements for MSP and the ecosystem approach. They will determine options for planning solutions for shipping routes and energy infrastructure, which will be consulted with sectors via the MSP Challenge. The final suggested planning solutions will inform national MSP process and, hence, are expected to be taken up in national Maritime Spatial Plans at their development or revision stage. In order to set conditions for a continuous MSP coordination on linear infrastructures, the project will develop recommendations for a BSR agreement on transboundary consultations on linear infrastructures within the MSP process. Consequently, increased transnational coherence of linear infrastructures in MSP will be achieved.

Achievements (EN):

First database for spatial planners in the region: In order to overcome the challenge of inconsistent maritime spatial planning approaches and procedures in the countries around the Baltic Sea, Baltic LINes set up a system for exchanging maritime spatial plans; compiled requirements for planning and developed scenarios for future developments in the energy and shipping sectors. The project partners established BASEMAPS, the first in the Baltic Sea region online database, which provides a catalogue of up-to-date transnational Maritime Spatial Planning data. It displays already existing and planned infrastructures from neighbouring countries. In this way, BASEMAPS helps spatial planning authorities as well as the authorities responsible for energy or transport planning in countries around the Baltic Sea to make planning decisions. Currently BASEMAPS are run by the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – HELCOM. Whereas the procedures on updating the information are subject to the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Working Group of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) & Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea organisation (VASAB). The Working Group represents ministries, government agencies, HELCOM and VASAB observers and other organisations from the Baltic Sea region countries. It is forum that the Baltic LINes also addressed with the project’s recommendations on the energy, shipping and horizontal issues, for example on the need to involve the stakeholders from the energy sector such as transmission system operators, offshore wind farm developers or civil servants. Preparing for future spatial challenges: Baltic LINes compiled spatial requirements for shipping and energy as well as future scenarios for 2030 and 2050, which were integrated into the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge. It is a virtual simulation game in which the planning authorities from all the Baltic Sea region countries can simulate different scenarios depending on the parametres they select. In this simulation, they develop plans for the future uses of sea space over a period of several decades, and observe the consequences of their decisions for energy, shipping and the marine environment. In this way, the MSP Challenge helps make better planning decisions to improve transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors. Linear infrastructures more coordinated: The project Baltic LINes used 2.50 EUR million from the European Union to increase the transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors by enabling countries around the Baltic Sea to learn about each other’s plans. Now, the project’s results are in use in the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project platform, Capacity4MSP, which further increases collaboration among stakeholders, decision- and policy makers in maritime spatial planning. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/baltic-lines/

Website: http://www.balticlines.eu

Delivered Outputs (EN):

Full MSP data layers BSR MSP data access and visualisation tool Criteria for designating linear infrastructure Report with planning solutions for linear infrastructures Web-acess point to MSP data infrastucture Recommendations for a formalised BSR agreement on transboundary consultations on linear infrastructure within the MSP process

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Regional planning and development Logistics and freight transport

Specific Objective: ‘Resource-efficient blue growth’: To advance sustainable and resource-efficient blue growth based on increased capacity of public authorities and practitioners within the blue economy sectors

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie

Department: Marine Sciences

Address: Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 78, 20359 Hamburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.bsh.de

Total budget: EUR 684 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 513 000.00

VASAB

Name: VASAB

Address: LV- 1010 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: n/a

Liikennevirasto

Name: Liikennevirasto

Address: 521 HELSINKI, Finland

Legal status: n/a

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

Name: Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

Address: Katajanokanlaituri 6 B , FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.helcom.fi

Total budget: EUR 392 635.00

ERDF budget: EUR 294 476.25

Ministerium für Energie, Infrastruktur und Digitalisierung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Name: Ministerium für Energie, Infrastruktur und Digitalisierung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Department: Regional Development Department

Address: Schloßstraße 6-8, 19053 Schwerin, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.em.regierung-mv.de

Total budget: EUR 138 706.00

ERDF budget: EUR 104 029.50

Havs- och vattenmyndigheten (HaV)

Name: Havs- och vattenmyndigheten (HaV)

Department: Marine Spatial Planning and Maritime Affairs Division

Address: Box 119 30 / Gullbergs Strandgata 15, SE 41107 Göteborg, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.havochvatten.se

Total budget: EUR 200 000.15

ERDF budget: EUR 150 000.11

Urząd Morski w Gdyni

Name: Urząd Morski w Gdyni

Address: ul. Chrzanowskiego 10 , 81-338 Gdynia , Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.umgdy.gov.pl

Total budget: EUR 12 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 10 540.00

Instytut Morski w Gdańsku

Name: Instytut Morski w Gdańsku

Address: Długi Targ 41/42 , 80-830 Gdańsk, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.im.gda.pl

Total budget: EUR 157 179.28

ERDF budget: EUR 133 602.38

Pajūrio tyrimų ir planavimo institutas

Name: Pajūrio tyrimų ir planavimo institutas

Address: Baltijos ave. 107-18 , LT932223 Klaipeda , Lithuania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.corpi.lt

Total budget: EUR 166 586.39

ERDF budget: EUR 141 598.43

Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija (VARAM)

Name: Vides aizsardzības un reģionālās attīstības ministrija (VARAM)

Department: Spatial planning department

Address: Peldu street 25, Riga , LV-1494 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varam.gov.lv/eng/par_ministriju/

Total budget: EUR 245 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 208 675.00

Tartu Ülikool

Name: Tartu Ülikool

Department: Estonian Marine Institute

Address: Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ut.ee/en

Total budget: EUR 210 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 178 500.00

Aalborg Universitet

Name: Aalborg Universitet

Department: Department of Development and Planning

Address: A. C. Meyers Vaenge 15 , 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.aau.dk

Total budget: EUR 279 450.00

ERDF budget: EUR 209 587.50

Suomen ympäristökeskus

Name: Suomen ympäristökeskus

Address: POBox 140, 00251 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.syke.fi/en

Total budget: EUR 222 413.50

ERDF budget: EUR 166 810.12

Breda University of Applied Sciences

Name: Breda University of Applied Sciences

Address: PO box 3917, 4817 JT Breda, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nhtv.nl/

Total budget: EUR 244 800.00

ERDF budget: EUR 183 600.00

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VASAB

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Liikennevirasto

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Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

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Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission - Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

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Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitalization Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM)

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Maritime Office Gdynia (MOG)

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Maritime Institute Gdańsk (MIG)

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Coastal Research and Planning Institute (CORPI)

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Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

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University of Tartu

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Aalborg University

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Finnish Environment Insitute

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Breda University of Applied Sciences

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Summary

Project name (EN): Coherent Linear Infrastructures in Baltic Maritime Spatial Plans

Project acronym: Baltic LINes

Project start date: 2016-03-01

Project end date: 2019-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 206 670.32

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 500 969.29

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 78.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 500 969.29.

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

BASEMAPS - a map service to access Baltic Sea maritime spatial planning data

Attachment type: link

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

Data source: http://www.baltic-integrid.eu/

Publication date: 2021-08-31

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://basemaps.helcom.fi/

Brochures / magazines / manuals

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE DESIGNATION OF ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE IN MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/

Publication date: 2021-08-31

Document date: 2018-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE DESIGNATION OF SHIP CORRIDORS IN MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/

Publication date: 2021-08-31

Document date: 2018-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BASEMAPS GUIDE - DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE BASEMAPS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-24

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Recommendations to the HELCOM-VASAB MSP working group on future actions deriving from findings from the Baltic LINes project

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-20

Document date: 2019-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Project Findings

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2019-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Data needs and availability

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2018-05-16

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Data Exchange and Dissemination

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2017-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

SHIPPING IN THE BALTIC SEA - Past, present and future developments relevant for Maritime Spatial Planning

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-22

Document date: 2016-12-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

2030 and 2050 Baltic Sea Energy Scenarios – Ocean Energy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-22

Document date: 2019-03-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

2030 and 2050 Baltic Sea Energy Scenarios

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-22

Document date: 2019-04-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Offshore Wind and Grid in the Baltic Sea – Status and Outlook until 2050

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-22

Document date: 2019-03-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

IDENTIFICATION OF TRANSNATIONAL PLANNING CRITERIA

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-23

Document date: 2018-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

FROM PLANNING ISSUES TOWARDS PLANNING SOLUTIONS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-23

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Hamburg Workshop results - MSP Challenge Baltic Sea edition

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-24

Document date: 2019-04-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Stakeholder Involvement in Long-term Maritime Spatial Planning: Latvian Case

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-27

Document date: 2017-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

QUO VADIS - Exploring the future of shipping in the Baltic Sea

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-27

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

CAPACITY DENSITIES OF EUROPEAN OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-27

Document date: 2018-07-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Presentations

The future of Maritime Spatial Planning data - Designing a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MDSI) prototype for Maritime Spatial Planning data in the Baltic Sea

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Stakeholder views on the future of offshore energy and grid in the Baltic Sea

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-24

Document date: 2018-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Flyers

BASEMAPS - Baltic Sea up-to-date data for MSP

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Flyer

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

BASEMAPS - how to access up-to-date MSP data in the Baltic Sea

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://vasab.org/project/balticlines/

Publication date: 2021-09-21

Document date: 2019-05-09

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

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2023-06-16

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200 / 200 (100%)

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2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

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