The Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020 finances result orientated cross-border cooperation projects in Estonia, Finland (incl Åland), Latvia and Sweden
An information session outlining the features and criteria of the fourth call of the Central Baltic Programme took place in Riga on 14 August. There were fifty or more potential applicants in attendance, long-term cooperation partners as well as many new faces, representing the planning regions, municipalities, universities, the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and the Industry and Employers’ Confederation of Latvia.  

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Roadtrip project strikes again :-)

Thursday, 16 August, 2018
The Roadtrip project visited one more Central Baltic project! This time the project in question is Vomare, an Estonian and Finnish initiative through which volunteers developed a joint maritime rescue system to improve search and rescue services. It is very nice to see that, even though this project ended, the activities developped during its implementation are still ongoing.

Here the video in which the two Commission Roadtrippers, Luna and Achilleas, discover the project.
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The Project Applicant Seminar is an event meant for partnerships in their advanced phase of application planning. 

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Roadtrip project @LightsOn!

Wednesday, 8 August, 2018
The Roadtrip project, an EU initiative meant to introduce 8 young europeans to EU funded projects as well as beautiful places far from home, started their Baltic Route on 25.7. in Rovaniemi Finland. 

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We are back!

Tuesday, 7 August, 2018
The heat-wave that affected Europe in July is now over (hopefully?!) and so are our 2018 summer holidays. Most of the staff is now back at the office and those who are still on holidays will be back soon.

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The Guide for filling in the Application form has just been updated. The new version is available here. ... Read more

Photo submission form

Tuesday, 26 June, 2018
At the Central Baltic programme, we are always on the look out for materials from our projects to be used in programme communication.

To streamline the process of sending us photos, we have just published a photo upload form on our webpage! Now projects can very easily send us material, by submitting e.g. photos via the form. 

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7th Steering Committee meeting

Monday, 18 June, 2018
Last week on 14-15.6 the Steering Committee meeting of the Central Baltic programme met up in Viby Sweden.

The topics on the agenda were:
  • update on the status of the programme implementation
  • the fourth call of the programme,
  • the role and work of the Contac Points and the
  • future of maritime interreg programmes post 2020. 
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At Central Baltic Programme we often rack our brains on how to get stories and results from our wonderful project picked up by media. I guess this is also something that projects themselves think about constantly. Sometimes the project topic hits the chord with the times and the potential results are just so special that it feels like that media attention happens by itself. Earlier this year the FinEst Link project had mayors and ministers attending and full Finnish and Estonian media attention for the whole morning. ... Read more
The Central Baltic programme has launched a public procurement to find an evaluator for impact evaluation. 

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