The 2nd Capacity4MSP project platform’s partner meeting was held online on 10 November 2020. During the meeting project partners shared the status update of project activities, discussed current issues for further project implementation. Main discussion topics are listed in this article.

On 22 September 2020, the SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG organised an online discussion workshop ‘Offshore Energy and Maritime Spatial Planning’, on behalf of the Capacity4MSP project, together with WindEurope, EUSBSR Priority Area Energy, Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP) Renewable Energy Working Group, Vattenfall, and German and Estonian offshore wind energy associations.

How do we plan for a better future? What kind of tools could help us make better, more sustainable decisions? How can we be better prepared for unexpected developments? Applicability and lessons learned from spatial scenarios method as well as integration of terrestrial and maritime spatial planning were discussed in a thrilling online webinar this autumn.

Within the Capacity4MSP project platform the Scientific and Research Institute of Maritime Spatial Planning Ermak NothWest (ErmakNW) and the Russian State Hydrometeorological University is focusing on drafting the MSP Roadmap in order to stimulate the implementation of MSP in Russia. To promote this progress, on 23 September 2020, ErmakNW together with MIREA - the Russian Technological University held an information workshop “Maritime spatial planning in the Russian Federation. Why does Russia need it?" for representatives of national and regional authorities. The event was organized in Moscow in a full-time and remote format.

Back-to-back with the 14th meeting of the Baltic Sea Region MSP Data Expert Sub-group (BSR MSP Data ESG) a workshop dedicated to the BASEMAPS data portal was organised online on 16 September 2020. Workshop was organised within the activities of the project platform Capacity4MSP. 16 participants from 7 HELCOM Contracting Parties as well as from the HELCOM and VASAB Secretariats attended the workshop.

The latest VASAB newsletter meets you at the end of August 2020.