Baltic Sea Underground Innovation Network (BSUIN) project partners worked together to achieve the main targets of the project. At the same time we all gave our input to the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 goal to support a more sustainable Baltic Sea region.
Baltic Sea Underground Innovation Network (BSUIN) project partners worked together to achieve the main targets of the project. At the same time we all gave our input to the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 goal to support a more sustainable Baltic Sea region.
Sustainable development was addressed in many project activities. We wanted to find innovative ways to reuse underground laboratories (UL). Some of the ULs were abandoned, some were in the process of ending the original use of the facility. This way the whole BSUIN project provided great value for sustainable development. Making use of old to create new was the guiding idea. With the old we mean all the knowledge that people who have worked in the ULs have, as well as the unused space and material.
Underground facilities are suitable for everything: plant growing, animal husbandry, storage, energy production etc. Project results give insight to unique possibilities for business and testing related with sustainable development. All the activity reports are publicly accessible. Learn more on the project website (http://bsuin.eu/2021/01/08/bsuin-final-reports/)
In the workshop of the project team members, also following aspects were brought up. UL’s can be used to learn and improve sustainable development such as energy and environment. It is not about the quantity, but it is about quality and long-term thinking. The ULs mean sometimes development possibilities of remote areas.
In the coming decades sustainability will become a key factor of competitiveness and success. Sustainable development is a very interdisciplinary area giving that way many possibilities for future project ideas, e.g. ULs as business or test sites for implementing business activities related to achieve the Green Deal goals.
Eija-Riitta Niinikoski
Development Manager, University of Oulu, Kerttu Saalasti Institute
Project Manager of the BSUIN project
Lessons Learnt blogs are written by BSUIN project members. They tell lessons they have learnt about international collaboration, Baltic Sea cultural heritage as well as co-creation in multinational and multidisciplinary teams.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Lessons Learnt: Baltic Sea Region Common Identity
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EUL Innovation platform V1.1: implementing updates
One of the main aims of the EUL (Empowering Underground Laboratories Network Usage) project is to test and develop the EUL Innovation platform and to make the tool into a more user-friendly and more purposeful direction for the potential customers and the underground laboratory managers to use. To achieve it WP2 team with its leader Jose Garcia de Real organized interactive workshops to gather ideas on how to make it possible.
MAY 19, 2020
Study of natural background radiation in Callio Lab (Finland)
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MAY 19, 2020
Open Day in Partner Institution – Institute of Physics, University of Silesia (Poland)
The BSUIN project was presented during the Open Day in Institute of Physics, University of Silesia (Poland).
MAY 14, 2020
Interview with Mia Pujol on intelligent lightning in underground conditions
The European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2020 was this year converted into EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20). The online program was held from 4th to 8th of May with inter- and transdisciplinary sessions, disciplinary sessions, Union symposia, and great debates. Short courses and other events took place in different formats.
OCTOBER 30, 2019
BSUIN project – great example of EU & Russia collaboration
Forum Strategov 2019 took place in St. Petersburg on 28.-29. of October 2019. In this event, separate part has been dedicated to the Baltic Sea region projects, seminar dialogue “The Baltic Sea Region: Russia-EU Transnational Cooperation Results and Perspectives” where Baltic Sea Underground Innovation Network (BSUIN) project was one of the examples of EU & Russia collaboration.
JUNE 17, 2019
Interview with Mia Pujol on intelligent lightning in underground conditions
Mia Pujol wrote her thesis on the topic of ”Lighting at the End of the Tunnel-The Design of Adaptive and Intelligent Lighting for an Underground Workspace”. She chose the research question with the determination to not fall into the trap of just formulating a very complex research question. ”When the topic of a thesis is as unique as mine is, there is often the tendency to over-complicate”, says Pujol. She thinks one of the most important things to achieve is to make the lighting accessible to a large number of people.
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