Projects supporting Policy Area Safe actions
“Providing reliable navigational conditions to the Baltic Sea”
Ongoing Projects:
Baltic Sea e-Nav
About: The project Baltic Sea e-Nav creates the next generation of navigational products and services compliant with new international standards, enabling national authorities and other maritime organisations to ensure safer, more harmonised and eco-efficient navigation at the Baltic Sea.
Lead Partner: Swedish Maritime Administration
Deadline: October 2026
Funding: Interreg Baltic Sea Region
NELSON
About: NELSON develops the physical and digital infrastructure of a fairway in two ways: to enable new innovate maritime services and to support the adoption of remote pilotage. The project aims to implement a unified and internationally standardized information exchange environment between ships and shore.
Lead Partner: FinTraffic
Deadline: August 2028
Funding: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
OPTIMISM
About: The motivation for the project is to assess and improve the effectiveness and implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code and its related instruments in the shipping industry. The project aims to develop a competence-based training programme for ISM Code and its Safety Management System., more harmonised and eco-efficient navigation at the Baltic Sea.
Lead Partner: C4FF, Centre For Factories of the Future
Deadline: August 2026
Funding: Erasmus+
Speed up re-surveying
About: The project aim to speed up the hydrographic surveys in the Baltic Sea, monitor and report the progress, maintain Database, Baltic Sea Hydrographic Commission
Lead Partner: Finnish Transport and Communication Agency (Traficom)
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“Developing winter navigation to meet future challenges”
WINMOS III – Winter Navigation Motorways of the Sea III
About: The project will contribute to providing improved icebreaking services and increase safety of navigation in the Gulf of Bothnia. The project concerns the acquisition of a new Swedish-owned icebreaker (A-class), jointly designed with Finland. It also includes studies to investigate the need for a smaller icebreaker (B-class), to further develop the Swedish and Finnish icebreaking management system (IBNet), to develop educational and certification programme for the navigators as well as investigating the current and future challenges of winter navigation and propose an optimal fleet composition for the area.
Lead Partner: Swedish Maritime Administration
Deadline: December 2027
Funding: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
WINMOS IV – Winter Navigation Motorways of the Sea IV
About: The project will contribute to providing improved icebreaking services and increase safety of navigation in the Baltic Sea. The project concerns the acquisition of a new Finnish-owned icebreaker. In Sweden the lifespan of the existing icebreakers is extended.
Lead Partner: Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA)
Deadline: December 2029
Funding: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
“To be a forerunner in digitalization and automation”
MaDaMe – Maritime Data Methods for Smart Shipping
About: The MaDaMe project focuses on water-smart societies and especially on blue economy in the field of shipping. The project improves the management of sea traffic by introducing a smart fairway solution to support remote navigational support, and automation on ships.
Lead Partner: Turku University of Applied Sciences
Deadline: October 2026
Funding: Interreg Baltic Sea Region
Ormobass – Operational R-mode Baltic Sea System to support resilient navigation
About: Shipping requires reliable navigation capabilities. Primary source of maritime navigation are Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which are prone to intentional and unintentional disturbances as reported in the eastern Baltic. To increase resilience of maritime transport and reduce the risk of using misleading information, national authorities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and worldwide are seeking for solutions to identify and mitigate GNSS disruptions or deceptions. One solution is the use of alternative systems, such as the terrestrial R-Mode. The project aims to implement an operational R-Mode system that comprises core functionalities to offer R-Mode positioning in the Baltic Sea Region. Further, additional on-board sensors will identify times when GNSS performance is reduced. The information will be fed into a GNSS degradation monitoring system to inform the mariners of threats for safe shipping.
Lead Partner: German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Deadline: October 2026
Funding:Interreg Baltic Sea Region
“Ensure accurate preparedness and response for maritime accidents and security issues”
BRISK II
About: The project aims to carry out a new strategic long-term risk analysis in the Baltic Sea, as the previous one (BRISK) was finalized in 2012 and valid until 2020. The project will identify future risks due to changed conditions in the Baltic Sea and analyze them with respect to their causal relations. To the extent possible, these relations will be supported and calibrated by accident statistics or other evidence.
Lead Partner: Merikotka, Kotka Maritime Research Centre
Deadline: December2026
Funding: UCPM, Union Civil Protection Mechanism (EU)
OpenRisk II
About: The project OpenRisk II equips maritime authorities and intergovernmental organisations with the risk assessment and risk management tools and thus helps to minimise maritime accidents and their footprint on the marine environment. The project will provide tools for shared & dynamic maritime traffic risk picture of the Baltic Sea region.
Lead Partner: Finnish Transport and Communication Agency
Deadline: October 2026
Funding: Interreg Baltic Sea Region
Finished Projects:
Baltic Marine Gravity Maps – BalMarGrav
About: The project aim to meet the problem of insufficient and outdated mapping of the marine gravity field in the south-eastern Baltic Sea region. The full name of the project is “Homogenized marine gravity maps of southern and eastern Baltic Sea for modern 3D applications in marine geodesy, geology and navigation”.
Lead Partner: IGiK, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland.
Finished: 2024
Funding: Interreg Baltic Sea Region