VASAB

R E S I L I E N C E 🌊
a keyword heard countless times throughout the 17th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in Tallinn, and for good reason.

Over two dynamic days, policymakers, planners, experts, and stakeholders came together to explore how stronger macro-regional cooperation, knowledge exchange, and cross-sector collaboration can contribute to regional security and shared prosperity across the Baltic Sea Region 🤝

Beyond the discussions on resilience, the Forum served as an important reminder that meaningful regional development depends on listening across sectors, learning from one another, and working together towards shared ambitions for the Baltic Sea Region 🌍 The diversity of stakeholders, perspectives, and experiences represented throughout the Forum reinforced the importance of looking beyond individual sectors and recognising cooperation across borders and disciplines as one of the region’s greatest strengths in achieving common long-term goals.

📸 More about VASAB participation at the Forum, key takeaways from our co-organised breakout sessions, and photo gallery find here: https://vasab.org/building-spatial-resilience-17th-eusbsr-annual-forum/

See you all next time!

💡The Land-based Planners’ Forum is not only the outcome of a single project or event, but the result of a broader process of listening, studying, testing ideas, and building common ground across the Baltic Sea Region. It reflects a shared ambition to create a practical and evolving cooperation space for planners, with the potential to grow into a long-term community of practice.

🧭 The Land-based Planners’ Forum will continue in the next phase, but we invite you to look back on our journey during phase one 📰 in this article: https://vasab.org/towards-a-land-based-planners-forum-in-bsr/

The project was funded by the Svenska institutet and led by Nordregio in partnership with Stockholm University, ARL - Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association, the Estonian Association for Spatial Planners, VASAB.