The 5th Baltic MSP Forum “Navigate Planning Through Changes!” took place on 11–12 November 2025 in Riga, Latvia. This Forum was organized together with the Baltic Sea2Land project, serving as its final conference, and broadening the scope to strengthen linkages between maritime spatial planning (MSP) and coastal zone planning.

The Forum gathered 169 participants from 14 different countries representing a diverse and truly international community of maritime spatial planning and coastal planning professionals. The Forum featured insights from 59 speakers, who contributed to discussions across plenary sessions, keynote speeches and 9 parallel sessions, offering a wide range of perspectives and expertise.

The Baltic MSP Forum continues to serve as a key platform for planners, policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders to meet, exchange knowledge and experience, share good practices, and strengthen transnational cooperation for dynamic and future-ready spatial planning in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond.

A comprehensive “bank of knowledge” from the 5th Baltic MSP Forum is now available. All session video recordings and presentations are published to support continued learning, ensure access to the discussions held at the Forum, and provide insight into current achievements and topics shaping maritime and coastal planning in the Baltic Sea Region:

• Session recordings are available in the YouTube playlist.
• Presentations and other visual materials from the event are here.
• A recap video “A Journey Through the Baltic MSP Forums” is here.

The 5th Baltic MSP Forum was organised by the VASAB Secretariat together with the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, as the Lead Partner of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project Baltic Sea2Land, and in cooperation with the partners of the project’s consortium. The 5th Baltic MSP Forum was supported by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2021-2027 – through the Subsidy contract for the project #C018 Baltic Sea2Land.