Many know that Baltic Sea Region had the first macro-regional strategy in the European Union. But not so many realize that macro-regional cooperation in the Baltics takes place for many decades.
VASAB Secretariat is elaborating a unique spatial planning document – a spatial vision for a transport corridor. Since 2016 VASAB Secretariat together with 15 other partners of the NSB CoRe project as well as many interested urban and transport planners, national, regional and local authorities, and other stakeholders are preparing transnational spatial vision of the NSB CoRe corridor. The vision should be ready by the end of 2018.
On March 14 in Vaasa, Finland, VASAB Secretariat is organizing a regional workshop on accessibility needs along the North Sea-Baltic TEN-T corridor in the Northern Baltic Sea Region. The 6th and the final regional workshop of the project NSB CoRe is organized during the E12 Atlantica Transport final conference “A Borderless Future!”.
On 9 February the ESPON European and Macro-regional Territorial Monitoring Tool project kicked-off in Brussels. The aim of this ESPON activity is to develop a practical and operational tool to continuously observe the development trends and patterns taking place in Europe and its macro-regions, including the Baltic Sea Region. The tool should help the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region to monitor its objectives and activities.
VASAB Secretariat is pleased to invite you to the regional workshop on accessibility needs along the North Sea-Baltic TEN-T corridor in the Baltic States and Poland that will take place on February 8, 2018, in Kaunas, Lithuania. The 5th regional workshop will place a special emphasis on accessibility needs along the NSB CoRe corridor in the Baltic States and Poland that can be addressed by spatial planning.