Maritime Institute as the lead partner of the PartiSEAparte project participated in Polish - Swedish consultations, which took place on 12 and 13 May 2014 in Warsaw. During the meeting, representatives of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Maritime Office in Gdynia, Maritime Office in Szczecin, Maritime Institute in Gdansk and representatives of the Ministry, exchanged views on the actions taken to develop Maritime Spatial Planning. They also discussed the scope of the data required in the above mentioned process, the possibility of exchanging and sharing the data and the need to develop procedures and rules for cross-border arrangements.

Swedish and Polish partners declared willingness to strengthen cooperation in the field of the "Blue Growth" among others, through the implementation of activities in the Horizon 2020 and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.

The next meeting is scheduled for February 2015. It is expected that the documents for studies of conditions for Maritime Spatial Planning will be ready until that time.