The eligible co-operation area includes EU member states Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and northern parts of Germany, as well as the neighbouring countries of Norway, north-west regions of Russia and Belarus.
Strategic objective of the programme is to make the Baltic Sea region an attractive place to invest, work and live in.
Project partners (public or public-like institutions) form partnerships to look for joint solutions to common problems & challenges.
It was approved in October 2008 in the first Call of the "Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007–2013", a programme financed from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), the Norwegian national funding as well as by own contributions (co-financing) by the project partner institutions.
These two oxides are the main cause of eutrophication, which is an environmental effect that limits water nutrients and endangers sea life.