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PA Nutri Talks – Water and nutrient management in rural areas

Online
09 September 2025

Join us for PA Nutri Talks on Water and nutrient management in rural areas. The webinar will discuss how water resilience, adaptation to effects of climate change (floods, droughts) can be a way to decrease nutrient emissions and how cooperation with local stakeholders is the key towards implementation.

Please feel free to suggest new project or policy presentations and send questions to speakers in advance.

When: 9 September, starting from 13 EET / 12 CET to 16:30 EET / 15:30 CET

Where: Online, Teams-link will be sent to all registered persons and be available online at https://eusbsr.eu/events/

Organiser: Coordinators of EUSBSR Policy Area Nutri

Target audiences: Regional, national and local level authorities, NGOs, people involved with catchment planning and catchment officer-work, farmers, farmer advisors, etc.

Preliminary programme

  1. Introduction – Elsi Kauppinen, coordinator for the EUSBSR Policy Area Nutri, ELY-Centre of South-West Finland
  2. Policy examples and experiences
    • Climate benefits from catchment based water management / Mari Lappalainen, ELY-Centre
    • Finnish roadmap towards catchment planning / Petri Nissinen, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
    • Swedish identified needs for catchment officers / Markus Hoffman, The Federation of Swedish Farmers
    • Estonian LIFE SIP WetEST project and Catchment coordinator’s role in river basin management and support for farmers – Elina Leiner, Head of the River Basin Management Plan Bureau at the Environmental Board and Karmen Roost, Environmental Project Manager at the Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce
    • HELCOM Policy Brief – Integrated rural water management, experiences from WaterDrive-project / Kaj Granholm, BSAG
  3. Break
  4. Project presentations
    • BaltCOP – The Baltic Catchment Officer Project (Interreg Central Baltic) – Mats Johansson, WWF Sweden
    • WSSP – WaterShed Safety Plan (Interreg Central Baltic) – Josefiina Ruponen, Häme University of Applied Sciences
    • Spongeworks-project in South-West Finland, Katariina Yli-Heikkilä, Valonia
  5. Discussion, questions to speakers from audience