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. Workshop was attended by 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 included presentations and interactive discussions, but generally it consisted 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 included 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.

Final agenda HERE.

Workshop summary HERE.

Scroll down to find the workshop presentations.

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