The BaltMet Network operates through initiating and co-ordinating particular co-operation projects between the member cities.
Through the project co-operation the network develops innovative approaches to involve actors especially in the fields of science, business and city administration.
The projects carried out under Baltic Metropoles umbrella:
CURRENT PROJECTS
Creative Metropoles - strengthening public policies and support instruments for developing the economic potential of creative industries
Baltic Sea Innovation Network Centres (BaSIC) - identification, selection and training of fast-growing, innovative SMEs
Joint SME Finance for Innovation (JOSEFIN) -
Baltmet Promo - To contribute to the regional branding and identity building
OTHER INITIATIVES
Sustainable Ports - Initiative of Ports of Stockholm.
BaltMet Infra - priority investment projects in environment, regional communication and transport networks
Baltic Challenge - an award for best Baltic Sea Region innovative ICT applications (2006 - 2007)
COMPLETED PROJECTS
BaltMet Inno - regional innovation policy framework and creation of platform for transnational cluster developing
BaltMet Invest - coordination of investment strategies for three Baltic capitals: Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius
BaltMet Exchange - staff exchange among culture departaments of Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Warsaw, on way towards a successful municipal mobility model
Public Procurement for Innovation - an initiative to raise awareness on advantages of public procurement for innovation in increasing competitiveness of the metropolitan regions
Balticness - CBSS Latvian presidency project, a year long series of public events promoting the Baltic Sea Region (2007 - 2008)
