Capitalising on TENT core network corridors for prosperity, growth and cohesion (TENTacle)

1. Region Blekinge (Sweden) (Lead partner)
2. Port of Hamburg Marketing (Germany)
3. Lahti Region Development LADEC (Finland)
4. Regional Council of North Karelia (Finland)
5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
6. Innovation Circle Network (Norway)
7. Municipality of Karlskrona (Sweden)
8. BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
9. Port of Karlshamn (Sweden)
10. Värmland-Østfold Border Council (Norway)
11. Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (Germany)
12. Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
13. Region Örebro County (Sweden)
14. Transnorden Sweden (Sweden)
15. Westpomeranian Region (Poland)
16. City of Gdynia (Poland)
17. Rostock Sea Port (Germany)
18. Guldborgsund Municipality (Denmark)
19. Region Skåne (Sweden)
20. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania)
21. Port of Gdynia Authority (Poland)
22. Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
23. Valga Town Government (Estonia)

Project objectives

1. Improve stakeholder capability to reap benefits of the core network corridors implementation in the Baltic Sea Region for the prosperity, sustainable growth and territorial cohesion in the BSR through joint response to identified capacity challenges and transnational cooperation.

Activities

1. At the local/regional scale TENTacle has 7 pilot showcases to demonstrate how to strengthen positive CNC spillovers by place­based measures in different development contexts. Through interfacing with the identified target public and market actors TENTacle will deliver plans and strategies containing policy­ and business­oriented solutions.
2. At the macroregional scale TENTacle will absorb pilot case results and through intensive stakeholder dialogue and additional analyses will work out win­win solutions for all BSR territories.
3. Vidzeme planning region as the project partner will develop the Vidzeme regional mobility investment plan 2030 with recommendations how to trigger and sustain growth impulses in a rural and declining region through an improved access of residents and businesses to urban centres and transport nodes (incl. seaports) on the North Sea-Baltic Corridor and how to thereby improve transit location of the region to EE, RU and BY markets.
4. Project publicity measures, meetings with stakeholders, thematic reports, study tours.

Results

1. Higher capacity of the target groups to interact in and capitalise on the implementation of the core network corridors.
2. Enhance the stakeholder competence in the pilot corridor node and transit areas, corridor catchment areas and corridor void areas in the BSR to utilise the corridor mobility boosting measures for the prosperity, sustainable growth and territorial cohesion.
3. Better ability of public authorities and market players (local/regional authorities, larger companies, SMEs, entrepreneurship groups, NGOs, cross­border networks etc.) to deliver effective place­based policies, strategies, actions and logistics solutions profiting from the access to the core network corridors.

Budget

Implementation period

01.03.2016 – 01.02.2019

Contacts

Rita Merca
Tel.: +371 29476373
E-mail: rita.merca@vidzeme.lv