The new programming period 2021-2027 of the Interreg South Baltic Programme is currently under development. In 2020, the Joint Programming Committee (JPC) and 2 Working Groups (WG) have been established. Since then, members of the JPC have met 6 times (3 meetings in Q1 2021) and working groups 13 times (6 meetings in Q1 2021). […]
The last joint CICPA project event took place in suburb of Gdansk in the last days of February 2020, just when the first information about the spread of the new coronavirus in our part of Europe reached us. Luckily, CICPA team could say good bye till another joint activity ingeniously. In two weeks, the quarantine […]
In March 2020 we released a special album. You can use it to learn about fantastic places where project activities took place and to get to know the organizations that were preparing the CICPA project. The album presents step by step a way of cooperation, in which the main role was played by using nature […]
The CICPA project – Common Initiatives in Conserved and Protected Areas means really common activities. Sometimes in the form of large outdoor events, sometimes during joint workshops, but sometimes during cosy meetings of the project partners. This was the case in December 2019 (December 5-7) when a representative of Society For The Coast – Kazimierz […]
On Friday 20th of September CICPA Project took part in education picnik hosted by Woliński National Park. CICPA Team represented by ladies from Community Centre of Culture in Stepnica and Society For The Coast was invited by Department of Education in Woliński National Park, to jointly create educational activities connected with nature of forest. The […]
New initiative in CICPA’s Lead Partner community! Administration of Seaside Regional Park in Karkle (Lithuania) together with University of Klaipeda and Klaipeda botanical garden have planned to show how beautiful local wild plants can be in citizens gardens. Unique sand plants typical for local Natura 2000 species will be adopted to grow in gardens. Exposition […]
Before the “CICPA EVENT 2019 Inspired by nature” started, the preparations were endless. The first parallel stages took place in both partner countries: Lithuania and Poland. Local communities and organizations together with project partners determined which of the initiatives and works carried out by CICPA project from 2018 to present at the event in Poland […]
Cooperation is an extraordinary art. The combination of talents, skills, personality, commitment … sometimes comes out naturally, other times you have to fight for it. Common Initiatives in Conserved and Protected Areas is our magical connection. Non-standard cooperation of organizations, institutions and people who whatever create, get inspired by nature. Joint effort of CICPA organisations […]
CICPA Partners and projects local communities have a pleasure to invite you to beautiful Polish-Lithuanian picnic inspired by Natura 2000. “CICPA EVENT 2019 Inspired by Nature” is an effect of collaboration of Lithuanian and Polish communities living and working on areas covered by Natura 2000. We mutually learn from ourselves that valuable natural areas mean […]
Watch CICPA movie and meet some of our Polish-Lithuanian networking activities! Did you like it? Send your feedback to martyna@southbaltic-cicpa.eu
On Thursday, 21st of February, Society For The Coast, Woliński National Park and Community Centre of Culture in Stepnica, in cooperation with the Mayor of Stepnica Municipality, invited self-governments, institutions and NGOs from all communities and elderships located around the Polish coast of Szczecin Lagoon, West Pomerania, to the Conference „Common Initiatives in Conserved and […]
Society For The Coast, Woliński National Park and Community Centre of Culture in Stepnica, in cooperation with the Mayor of Stepnica Municipality, have a pleasure to invite to the conference „Common Initiatives in Conserved and Protected Areas. Over the water, around the Lagoon”. The meeting will be devoted to the capacity of developing local and […]
On 13th-14th of November, representatives of CICPA project visited cross-project workshops organised by the LiveLagoons project representatices. LiveLagoons aims to implement new, environmentally friendly techniques to help improve water quality in the eutrophic lagoons of the southern Baltic Sea. For this purpose, innovative floating islands will be used for wetlands that serve through a system […]
This was very busy but successful weekend for our project. Representatives of partners, associated partners and project target groups from Lithuania and Poland took part in CICPA Study Tour, dedicated to sharing experience on a field of cross-border cooperation and building relations on different sides of borders. We started on Friday 28th in Cedynia with […]
“Menkine” is not only a name of fish. It has been a catchword of the first Lithuanian-Polish CICPA Event, fantastic cultural meeting in Karklė (Lithuania), organized by participants of CICPA project.Menkine = cod = dorsz. Fish from Baltic Sea, which could be a kind of a living symbol of our project. What can we get […]
The first Lithuanian seminar for CICPA target groups was held on May 4 in Karklė, the premises of the Administration of Seaside Regional Park. Partners, Associated Partners and local project’s target groups, have met two weeks before the first Polish-Lithuanian CICPA workshops. Representatives of the Karklė community, Regional Park staff, EUCC Baltic office staff, foresters, […]
Common Initiatives in Conserved and Protected Areas has started on two partnership localisations: areas of West Pomerania Region in Poland with its unique Odra Delta Nature Park, Woliński National Park and West Pomerania Landscape Parks and areas of Kretingale Eldership in Lithuania consisting of beautifull coastline of Lithuania Minor and Seaside Regional Park – all […]
Natura 2000 is s the largest coordinated network of natural protected areas in the world.The network of sites selected to ensure the long-term survival of Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats. How a site is chosen depends on what it aims to protect. Natura 2000 offers a haven to Europe’s most valuable and threatened species […]
CICPA partnership is a commitment of joint goals to reach and common ideas to realize. Partnership is built of Partners mutual experiences on different fields and feeling of a need to improve something else together. There was no coincidence in our case. Project was invented, step by step, by Lithuanian and Polish organizations and enriched […]
Lead Partner: Administration of Seaside Regional Park (Lithuania) Administration of Seaside Regional Park was established in 1997 as governmental budget institution, the department of LR Ministry of Environment. Administration of Seaside Regional Park is funded by the LR budget; also, it has its own earned (from visitors’ tickets, different services) resources. The main activities are […]
Municipality of Stepnica (Poland) Municipality of Stepnica is an extremely picturesque area of 294 km2, located in the west-north part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, also on the waters of the Szczecin Lagoon. 39.8% of the surface is covred by water, 30% by forests and 30.2% by fields, meadows, wetlands and peat bogs. The community […]
On 23rd-24th of May, Lithuanian and Polish representatives of Common Initiatives in Conserved and Protected Areas (CICPA) participated actively in all planned activities during South Baltic Annual Event in Klaipeda: plenary session, roundtables, workshops and social events. It was very optimistic and well organized event, which gave us possibility to present one of the youngest […]
The beginnings do not have to be difficult, as our first international joint project’s workshops proved.On 18th of May, 42 members of 22 Lithuanian and Polish organisations participated in first day of cross-border workshops in Stepnica, West Pomerania, Poland, organized by Society For The Coast, with great suport of Community Centre of Culture in Stepnica.Open […]