Workshop ‘Tackling Land-Sea Interactions on the Way Towards Blue Growth in the Baltic Sea Region’ is organised within the project platform Capacity4MSP and will take place on 3 March 2021 online.

The workshop is organised to present and discuss ideas on multi-level governance potential for managing land-sea interactions with the aim to foster and strengthen blue economy in the coastal areas. Among the workshop participants there will be MSP planners and authorities, regional & local representatives of governance from coastal areas with interest in themes of coastal and marine tourism, offshore wind park developers, cultural heritage experts, researchers; representatives of different sectors (offshore energy, tourism) as well as other sectoral experts.

The workshop will include presentations and interactive discussions, but generally it will consist of two parts:

• PART 1: Setting the scene – complexity of land-sea interactions
  Session includes key-note presentations on multi-level governance, blue economy, and well-being of coastal communities in relation to land-sea interactions and marine spatial planning. Session also will include interactive Q&A and discussion elements.
• PART 2: Getting to know good practices of consideration of land-sea interactions and challenges ahead
  Three short sessions with presentations and panel discussions on:
  1)Offshore wind parks & coastal communities,
  2)Coastal tourism & coastal environment,
  3)Marine/coastal cultural heritage and identities of coastal communities.

For any organisational matter please contact Ms Margarita Vološina margarita.volosina@varam.gov.lv (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia).

More information about the Capacity4MSP project find at the website www.capacity4msp.eu