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An international project is developing new methods to help paramedics identify patients with cardiorespiratory diseases and stroke who need urgent care. The aim is to reduce the time it takes to treat patients and improve outcomes.

During the first six months of the international BLUE-C project, the partners have interviewed entrepreneurs and other tourism professionals to gain their knowledge and experiences on coastal tourism challenges, opportunities, and needs. They have also done desk research to discover best practices in use and factors directing the local, regional and European level development work. The results of the work so far will be utilised in the study material and networks planned for the project. BLUE-C is partially funded by the Erasmus+ programme.

“Teacher stories” - Inspiring good practices - a booklet of educator stories presents the experiences and views of 57 academic teachers on online teaching. Through the interviews, we studied how the working and teaching methods changed during Covid-19 pandemic. We focused in good practices, in particular, how online teaching was organised and how the students were engaged into online teaching.

The Centre for Maritime Studies at the University of Turku (CMS) finalized a three-year project GET READY. The CMS’ main outputs were a curriculum for short-term professional training and examination of best practices on sustainable spatial planning in the Eastern Gulf of Finland. The training course provides a general level introduction of the principles and practices of sustainable spatial planning. It was based on the best practices identified by the project consortium.

The international co-operation project BLUE-C started by having a Kick-off meeting last week. It is a project on coastal and maritime tourism, the goal of which is to enhance sustainability and competitiveness of the blue economy by promoting collaboration and increasing competences. The project has partners in six European countries and the Centre for Maritime Studies represents Finland. The Kick-off meeting took place on 28 January 2022.

The influence of the human factor upon safety at sea is an extremely complex and multidimensional construct. Despite all the technological development and safety systems available, human factors remain the main cause of maritime accident events. The Human XFactor at Sea project explored maritime operations to gain new knowledge and understanding of the significance of the human factor in maritime safety. As a result, numerous areas requiring further research were identified to enable fostering safety.

The InCompEdu project is seeking an answer to this question: which kind of challenges there are at the European universities. The aim is to identify success stories and best practices, and to learn from each other. Please share your experiences on online teaching!

The Eastern Gulf of Finland hosts a variety of human activities as well as sites of cultural, historical and natural values. The geographically small coastal and marine area is rich with major ports, busy waterways, blue economy businesses activities, and a wide variety of leisure activities. Inevitably, environmental challenges cannot be avoided. Therefore, the needs and interests of different actors need to be considered and balanced, natural and cultural values should be preserved, environmental impacts mitigated, and efforts made to improve the state of the environment where needed.