Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

Programme 2007 - 2013 Central Baltic (FI-SE-EE-LA)

Date of latest update: 2025-07-05

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Background: The Baltic Sea Region in general is an economically dynamic and growing region, also characterised by diversity among sub-regions and rural / urban areas.By providing enhanced accessibility to the region, new opportunities to develop sectors such as tourism and trade would be opened.Parts of the Baltic Sea Region countries, such as Gotland, Kurzeme (Ventspils) and Saaremaa (hereinafter – the Region) have become locally recognized with attractive touristic offers.Internationally, the Region as a whole is regarded as a peripheral region; due to the limited access it cannot be competitive as a joint region for a wider target market. Objective: to support the establishment of viable transport links between the three regions and optimizing the current transport conditions. By linking directly the three regions, economic development and competitiveness will be fostered by reducing cost and time effects of long travel and transportation distances (including both passenger and cargo traffic).The project is based on the historically established cooperation between the three regions – suitable to create an excellent platform for joint marketing activities to promote a larger area through a jointly developed tourism product as an attractive travel destination in all partner countries, as well as outside the programme area. Partnership: consists of 2 groups: direct partners – port authority and municipalities with an influence on policy-making; and professional tourism and business organizations as additional partners. Activities: there are 2 main types of activities, those intended for strategic planning for improving accessibility and attractiveness of the three regions and those intended to involve a wider group of stakeholders by increasing capacity of business sector. Outputs: PSG 7 meetings; PMT 12 meetings; 6 field trips; 4 workshops within transport solutions study between regions and tourism, business and marketing strategy;1 transport solutions study between regions; 1 Tourism, business and marketing strategy; 6 workshops on establishment of tourism products;10 training seminars for entrepreneurs; 18 press releases;1 final conference and press conference;39 000 booklets.Results: Reduced journey time and reduced costs for passengers and freight transportation; Provides faster and more convenient connection between the regions; Diminished transport influence on environment, providing passenger and cargo traffic transfer of land and air routes to the sea;Promotion of economic development by ensuring the compatibility of various transport modes; Promotion of business development and job creation; Development of a joint cross-border tourism products of the region;Promotion of cross-border cooperation for next development projects; Promotion of the EU, national, regional and local development planning goals, which focus on the region's accessibility and improvement of its attractiveness.

Achievements (EN):

The GoveSa Link project aimed at supporting the establishment of possible transportation links between the three regions of Gotland, Ventspils and Saaremaa Due to unexpected challenges related to the realisation of the study on transport solutions, the project could not fulfil its objectives as planned. Consequently, the project had to be put to an end after 15 months of implementation.

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Multimodal transport Transport and mobility

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Lead Partner: Ventspils Brīvostas Pārvalde

Address: Jana str.19, LV-3601 Ventspils, Latvia

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Gotlands kommun

Name: Gotlands kommun

Address: Gotlands kommun, SE-621 81 Visby, Sweden

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Kuressaare

Name: Kuressaare

Address: Tallinna 10, 93819 Kuressaare, Estonia

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Ventspils brīvostas pārvalde

Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

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Gotlands kommun

Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

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Kuressaare linnavalitsus

Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

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Project name (EN): Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

Project acronym: GoVeSa link

Project start date: 2011-01-01

Project end date: 2012-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 562 123.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 286 286.00

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2007 - 2013 Central Baltic (FI-SE-EE-LA)

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2014-09-01

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

122 / 122 (100%)

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

672 / 672 (100%)

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Linking Gotland-Ventspils-Saaremaa for sustainable development

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