Interreg Baltic Sea Region Seed Money supports the preparation of projects in line with the Action Plan of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. Seed money funding should be used to plan the main project activities, partnership and budget as well as to investigate the current situation of the thematic field and potential funding sources for the main project.

Call open: 5 November 2019 

The seed money application procedure consists of two steps. 

Step 1:  Pre-selection by PA Nutri

5 November 2019 – 9 December 2019 - Interested applicants are welcome to submit their applications to PA Nutri

by 20 January 2020 – preselection by PA Nutri

Step 2: Submission of seed money applications to Interreg Baltic Sea Region (only applications pre-selected by PACs/HACs)

by 23 March 2020 - Submission of applications to the Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat via online system  

June 2020 - Selection of seed money projects by the Monitoring Committee

The main general pre-selection criteria are:

• The draft application demonstrates potential for a high macro-regional impact;

• The draft application contributes to fulfilling the objectives, indicators and targets of the EUSBSR;

• The draft application is related to the implementation of one or more actions of the policy area/horizontal action concerned;

• The draft application has a clear transnational dimension;

• The draft application demonstrates added value to already implemented activities/initiatives in the region.

Detailed information regarding the timetable and the links to the call procedure are here.

DESIRE project organised the second meeting on 24^th of September (Poland, Białystok). The meeting was focused on exchange of information between polish stakeholders about options and problems in terms of peatland restoration in polish part of Nemunas catchment.

The kick off meeting of DESIRE project took place on 20-21 of March 2019, in Greifswald, Germany. The meeting was attended by the project leader, project partners, PA Nutri coordinator and scientists. DESIRE leaders presented premises of the project and discussed individual tasks and stages of project work. Participants of the meeting also had the opportunity to get to know the results of the latest research in the use of wetlands as buffer zones.

The 10^th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy of the Baltic Sea Region (12-13 June 2019, Gdańsk, Poland) was devoted to circular economy in environmental, business and demographic context. The keynote of plenary sessions and 18 thematic seminars was “reuse, reduce and rethink”. Forum was visited by more than 700 attendees from governments, international organisations, NGOs, universities, local and regional administrations and businesses. For more information look here.

The seminar “Safe nutrient recycling for cleaner Baltic Sea”  was jointly organised by policy areas Nutri and Hazards in cooperation with HELCOM and two project platforms BSR WATER and SuMaNu. The aim of the seminar was to introduce the current state of the draft of Baltic Sea Regional Nutrient Recycling Strategy and to discuss further steps:

engaging economic instruments, establishing even stronger cooperation between science and business, updating policy and legislative framework to support innovations and facilitate realization of solutions to recycle nutrients.

The seminar was visited by more than 40 participants representing businesses, academia, international organisations, NGOs and governmental, regional and local authorities in the Baltic Sea region.

Read the report of the seminar here.