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BEIDS Five Years

The Baltic Environmental Information Dissemination System (BEIDS) has now entered its fifth year. Since its origin as an Interreg-Project back to 1999, BEIDS has evolved to become an important regional tool for environmental information in the Baltic. From its office in Hamburg and by means of an extensive network which includes over 8.000 people and institutions across the region, BEIDS has become a synonym of Baltic integration.

As part of the “BEIDS Five Years” celebrations, a set of activities will be directly organised or supported by BEIDS in the region over the course of the year 2004. This is already a special year in the sense that four of BEIDS participant countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland) will become EU members. In this context, users and members of the BEIDS network will receive timely details on the planned activities, which will be held in the region.

Some of them are:

• a workshop on transborder cooperation in Tallin, Estonia in February
• a sustainability workshop in Berlin in April
• a workshop on sustainable urban planning in St. Petersburg (Russia) in May
• a workshop on Brownfields in Hamburg in June as part of the Baltic Urban Forum project
• a conference on sustainable energy in Falkenberg (Sweden) in June
• a sustainable development seminar in Cracow (Poland) in September
• a conference on sustainability indicators in Kaunas (Lithuania) in October
• the Euro Environment 2004 conference in Aalborg (Denmark) in November

Details on the above and other important events held in 2004 will also be featured in the “BEIDS Environment  Agenda” and users are warmly recommended to visit BEIDS web site (http://www.beids.de), clicking on the icon “Baltic Environment Agenda”  to obtain further information.

BEIDS Five Years: making sustainability in the Baltic a reality.