Baltic Sea regional projects

1. Baltic Sea regional projects • Bioenergy Promotion • BioM • Demo farm • MOMENT • Recoca • Waterpraxis • Wetlands, Algea and Biogas Activewetlands Aquarius Balthazar Baltic Deal Baltic Stern Baltic MANURE BerasImplementation

2. Baltic Sea regional projects • This presentation introduces other ongoing projects that operate in the same field of interest as Baltic Compass. • The projects are handpicked and represent international Baltic Sea projects that are in the agro-environmental field. • This project list will be helpful in seeking contacts and developing networks around the Baltic Sea. • The list will also show that many Baltic Sea projects have the same aim, and therefore cooperation between projects could be very interesting and useful.

3. Baltic Compass • Baltic Compass aims to reinforce connections between land use, environment and agriculture leading to healthier ecosystems and a more competitive Baltic Sea Region. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Finland, Estonia Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden • Project Manager: Staffan Lund, staffan.lund@adm.slu.se • Lead partner: SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences • Time period: 2009-2012 • Website:www.balticcompass.org

4. Activewetlands • Estonian and Finnish farmers, rural advisors and decision-makerswilllearnmoreabouthowwetlandscan be used to reduce the nutrientload from agriculture. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Finland and Estonia • Project Manager: Tapio Salo, tapio.salo@mtt.fi • Lead partner: MTT Agrifood Research (Finland) • Time period: 2009-2011 • Website:www.wwf.fi/activewetlands

5. Aquarius • Aquarius aims to develop the farmer as water manager able to practice sustainable farming under climatic changes with due respect to environmental protection. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Denmark, Norway, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, UK • Project Manager: Irene Asta Wiborg, iaw@landscentret.dk • Lead partner: Danish Agricultural Advisory Service • Time period: 2009-2012 • Website:http://www.northsearegion.eu/ivb/projects/details/&tid=90

6. BalthazarBaltic Hazardous and Agricultural Releases Reduction • The overall objective of the BALTHAZAR project is to promote protection of the Baltic Sea protection from hazardous waste as well as from agricultural nutrient loading. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Finland and Russia • Project Manager: Kaj Forsius, kaj.forsius@helcom.fi • Lead partner: HELCOM (Finland) • Time period: 2009-2010 • http://www.helcom.fi/projects/en_GB/BALTHAZAR/

7. Baltic Deal Putting best agricultural practices into work • The strategic project objective is to cost-effectively improve the environmental status of the Baltic Sea through reductions in nutrient losses from the agricultural sector, without impairing competitiveness or production. • FACT BOX • Participating countries: Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark • Project Manager: Kaspars Žūriņš,kaspars.zurins@llkc.lv • Lead partner: Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Centre • Time period: 2010-2013 • www.balticdeal.eu

8. BalticSTERN FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia • Project Manager: Siv Ericsdotter, Head of BalticSTERNSecretariat: siv.ericsdotter@stockholmresilience.su.se • Lead partner: MTT Agrifood Finland (Finland), Enveco Ltd. (Sweden), NERI (Danmark), Baltic NestInstitute (Sweden/Denmark) • Time period: 2009-2012 • http://stockholmresilience.org/balticstern • BalticSTERN is an international research network with the purpose of doing cost-benefit analysis regarding the environmental problems of the Baltic Sea and give guidance toward cost-effective measures and policy instruments.

9. Baltic MANUREBALTIC Forum for Innovative Technologies for SustainableMANURE Management • Baltic MANURE is turning the perception of manure and intensive animal husbandry from an environmental problem into an opportunity for business innovation. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Denmark, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Germany • Project Manager: Markku Järvenpää, markku.jarvenpaa@mtt.fi • Lead partner: MTT Agrifood Research Finland • Time period: 2010-2013 • www.balticmanure.eu

10. BERAS Implementation •  The project will contribute to achieve a good environmental status in the Baltic Sea, reinforce the sustainability of agriculture and enhance rural development in the region. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus • Lead partner: Södertörn University • Project Manager: Artur Granstedt, arturgranstedt@beras.eu • Time period: 2010-2013 • http://www.beras.eu/

11. Bioenergy promotion • The project aims to strengthen the development towards a sustainable, competitive and territorially integrated Baltic Sea Region in the field of sustainable use of bioenergy. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland • Project Manager: Sonja Ewerstein, sonja.ewerstein@energimyndigheten.se • Lead partner: Swedish Energy Agency • Time period: 2009-2012 • http://www.bioenergypromotion.net/

12. BioM • The project’sobjective is to promotedevelopment for extensive and far-reaching biogas production in the Kattegat/Skagerrak region. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway. • Project Manager: AnkeStubsgaard, aks@agrotech.dk • Lead partner: AgroTech A/S (Danmark) • Time period: 2010-2012 • http://www.biom-kask.eu/

13. DEMO FARMDevelopment of Latvian-Estonian network for demonstration of environmentally friendly farming practices • The main aim of the project is to develop a network of farms for demonstration of sustainable farming practices in Latvia and Estonia. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Latvia and Estonia • Project Manager: AndrejsBriedis, andrejs.briedis@llkc.lv • Lead partner: Latvian Rural AdvisoryTraining Centre • Time period: 2009-2011

14. MOMENT • Develop measures and methods for effective and sustainable river basin based water management with the aim to reduce the outflow of nutrients and hazardous substances. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Russia • Project Manager: Tobias Facchini, tobias.facchini@rfkl.se • Lead partner: The Regional Council in Kalmar County (Sweden) • Time period: 2009-2012 • http://www.momentproject.eu/

15. Recoca • RECOCA will provide scientific outputs that facilitate the implementation of ecosystem-based environmental management of the Baltic Sea, since most management decisions combating eutrophication have to be carried out in the catchment area of the Baltic Sea. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Norway, and Latvia • Project Manager: Fredrik Wulff, wulff@mbox.su.se • Lead partner: Baltic NestInstitute (Sweden) • Time period: 2009-2011 • http://www.balticnest.org/balticnest/balticnest/activities/ongoingprojects/bonus/recoca..html

16. WAB – Wetlands, Algae, Biogasan eutrophication counteract projectea and biogas • The project aims to collect and use the excessive biomass along the Baltic Sea coasts and use it as a resource by fermenting it into biogas. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: Sweden, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania • Project Manager: Mattias Müller, mattias.muller@trelleborg.se • Lead partner: Municipality of Trelleborg (Sweden) • Time period: • http://wabproject.pl/en/abouttheproject/components/wetlands.php

17. Waterpraxis • Waterpraxis aims to improve the status of the Baltic Sea by assisting the implementation of river basin management plans into practice in the region. FACT BOX • Participatingcountries: : Finland, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia • Project Manager: Seppo Hellsten , seppo.hellsten@ymparisto.fi • Lead partner: Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE • Time period: 2008-2012 • http://www.waterpraxis.net/fi.html