SUBPROJECT 1

     The Baltic Sea Region
(northwestern Russia, including Karelia, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Novgorod, the Baltic states, the Nordic countries, Poland and Germany)

     Strategic Challenges

The Subproject will secure its objectives by identifying and addressing a spectrum of sector and region-specific challenges which are rooted in the Baltic Sea Region's history of political, cultural, ethnic, religious, social and linguistic diversity.

     The Project includes two main directions of activity:

• Observation of the regions' states and the entire North European and Baltic Sea area, and
• Policies and instruments for preventing violent conflicts, including development and governance approaches (policies to promote economic and social development, preventive economic development aid, economic integration, society-to-society, bilateral co-operative programs; enforcement of human rights, democratic and other standards).