Transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea region programme 2007-2013 and its influence on rural areas' environment
2016
Stawicki, M., Warsaw Univ. of Life Sciences (Poland)
The main aim of the paper is to assess the scale of cooperation under the Baltic Sea Region 2007-2013 Programme and show its effects on rural areas basing on the example of one selected transnational project. The specific tasks were to present the territorial, financial and subjective diversity of cooperating institutions from countries around the Baltic Sea. For deeper analysis, the author has chosen project Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society Implementation, in which 24 partners from 9 countries were involved and which was concentrated on environment in the rural areas and agriculture. The research was conducted using programme documents and brochures, statistical data gathered by the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Baltic Sea Region Programme, the author conducted also individual interviews with partners of the project. The main results show that the transnational cooperation was quite intense. The structure of 1050 institutions which took part in BSR projects was rather balanced; the number of projects implemented in most EU countries was similar and varied from 56 in Denmark to 81 in Germany. Number of project partners was more diversified, both on country and NUTS-3 level. The cities with the highest number of participations were Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and Helsinki. The Baltic Deal and Beras implementation projects have had a direct, although not very strong, impact on rural areas environment, their effects were newly established ecological agriculture demonstration centres and promotion of the principles of sustainable agriculture and food production on the basis of regional distribution systems.
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