BALCA - Building Capacity for Baltic Climate Action

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A Poland-Denmark-Germany-Lithuania-Sweden (South Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2026-05-07

Description

Description (EN):

The project’s objective is to strengthen the capacity of local actors to collaborate at both local and cross-border level in the Southern Baltic region. By exchanging knowledge, experiences and working together, we will improve the ability to engage and motivate citizens to reduce their climate footprint. According to the UN IPCC, urgent action is needed to limit global warming to 1.5-2 °C. Across the Southern Baltic region, local actors and companies are transitioning to climate-smart management, but for a sustainable future we also need to adapt to a low-carbon lifestyle, engaging all citizens. Currently, local actors struggle to induce citizens to turn knowledge into action through encouraging, for example the use of public transportation, cycling over driving, choosing trains instead of planes, and reducing consumption. This project unites South Baltic actors facing the same challenges, creating a framework where they can jointly address issues like transportation and consumption through coordinated action. By pooling resources and knowledge, the actors can tackle these shared problems more effectively. A core element of the project is creating citizen-led action groups composed of working-age residents. These residents have a significant impact on household and community climate footprints through their daily choices and behaviors. Engaging this group can influence broader shifts in behaviors that contribute to climate change mitigation. We believe that it is not enough to simply suggest changes in citizens’ behaviours: we aim to partner with them in both the design and implementation of solutions. This approach encourages both local and cross-border cooperation among citizens, while at the same time broadening local actors' perspective on climate action plans. It is here, in the relationship between local actors and working-age residents that our approach gains strength. The project’s participatory design will help people from participating areas in Sweden, Poland and Lithuania to collaborate on climate-friendly initiatives, like reducing their carbon footprint through consumption habits or transport choices. The key focus is motivation: studies indicate that people often have the resources to make changes, but their motivation is not sufficient to bring about these changes. By involving citizens in creating action plans that boost motivation, we can encourage the proliferation of ideas, sustained engagement and behavioural change. The project will foster a sense of ownership, responsibility and purpose among citizens, contributing to the objectives of the European Green Deal and the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). The project promotes the exchange of successful methods, best practices, and lessons learned across borders. Local actors from different countries will have the opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences, test out and refine methods that can then be applied locally. This cross-border exchange enhances the capacity of all involved regions to implement effective climate solutions that suit the specific needs of their local communities. By involving local actors in the design and implementation of climate action plans, the project will help them engage their own communities in sustainable behaviors. The involvement of local actors from different countries in designing these plans encourages mutual learning and broadens their understanding of climate action at the regional level, enhancing their overall effectiveness. The project will culminate in the development of an all project languages toolkit for local actors. This toolkit, informed by cross-border collaboration and citizen-led action groups, provides a valuable resource for other local actors across the Southern Baltic region to inspire and motivate their citizens to adopt sustainable behaviors. The sharing of this resource demonstrates how cross-border cooperation can have a lasting, positive impact.

Thematic information

Climate change and biodiversity Knowledge and technology transfer Community integration and common identity

Priority: (VI-A_SB_4) Active South Baltic - improving cooperation governance

Priority specific objective: ISO6.1. Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities, in particular those mandated to manage a specific territory, and of stakeholders (all strands)

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governance

Type of intervention: 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

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Alvesta municipality

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 2120000639

Address: Centralplan, 34230 Alvesta, Sweden

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Total budget: EUR 50 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 40 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 10 000.00

Administration of Tauragė district municipality

Name: Administration of Tauragė district municipality

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 188737457

Address: Respublikos g. , 72255 Tauragė, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Total budget: EUR 30 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 24 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 6 000.00

Gryfino Municipality

Name: Gryfino Municipality

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 8581127857

Address: 1 Maja, 74-100 Gryfino, Poland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Total budget: EUR 30 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 24 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 6 000.00

Linnéuniversitetet

Name: Linnéuniversitetet

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 2021006271

Address: Universitetsplatsen , 35252 Växjö, Sweden

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Total budget: EUR 30 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 24 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 6 000.00

Tczew Municipality

Name: Tczew Municipality

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 5930005678

Address: 83-110 Tczew, Poland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Total budget: EUR 30 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 24 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 6 000.00

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Name: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Partner’s ID if not PIC: LT119502413

Address: Saulėtekio al., 10223 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Total budget: EUR 30 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 24 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 6 000.00

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Administration of Tauragė district municipality

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Gryfino Municipality

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Linnaeus University

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Tczew Municipality

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Vilnius Gediminas technical university

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Alvesta municipality

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Summary

Project name (EN): BALCA - Building Capacity for Baltic Climate Action

Project acronym: BALCA - Building Capacity for Baltic Climate Action

Project ID: STHB.04.01-IP.01-0011/25

Project start date: 2025-09-01

Project end date: 2027-02-28

Project status: ongoing

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 200 000.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 160 000.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 160 000.00. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
RCO 001 - Enterprises supported (of which: micro, small, medium, large), Measurement unit:

Delivered output indicator(s):

(RCO087) Organisations cooperating across borders: 7.0

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:

Delivered result indicator(s):

(RCR84) Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion: 7.0

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A Poland-Denmark-Germany-Lithuania-Sweden (South Baltic)

Latest month of project-partner-call data publication

2026-05

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

55 / 55 (100%)

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

408 / 408 (100%)

Notes on the data

There are discrepancies in this programme's financial data in keep.eu. Namely, in one or more cases, the sum of the project partners' budgets exceeds the total budget of the respective project. Interact is working with the Programme to correct those figures.

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BALCA - Building Capacity for Baltic Climate Action

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Summary

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

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