MARISEC

Project objective and activities

The project aims to strengthen the resilience of the Baltic Sea region against marine environmental incidents by promoting risk awareness, preparedness and response capacity, and to increase cross-sectoral cooperation and interaction between the Baltic Sea coastal states in the field.

The project will implement the following measures: compiling the results of projects already carried out, testing oil spill response equipment, collecting best practices and assessing current capabilities in responding to environmental incidents. At the same time, all of these will be synthesised and enriched in separate workshops and presented at a joint seminar.

a) Compiling and utilising the results and outputs of previous projects and existing models related to oil and chemical spill risks and their mitigation in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea coastal areas, and describing the most significant changes that have occurred and are occurring in the risk landscape, including the changing types of spills resulting from the green transition, such as fossil oil substitutes.

b) Testing the capabilities of existing oil spill recovery equipment and the latest oil spill response technologies to support current capabilities for the most likely types of pollution as well as those with the highest probability in the future.

c) To compile best practices and preparedness approaches for environmental emergencies in the Baltic Sea region and explore the potential of new technologies. The compilation will make use of both national and international networks.

d) Assess the existing environmental preparedness and response capacity in the light of the project’s situational awareness assessment.

e) To ensure the effectiveness of the intervention, project workshops and a project seminar will be organised to present the results and outputs of the project and the findings made during the project.