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Just recently Blues lovers from all over celebrated the fifth edition of the Suwalki Blues Festival. “It was my first visit, not just to the Blues Festival, but to Suwalki at all and I am very impressed with what they have achieved in just five years...

Almost every Latvian has roots in the countryside, the regions, the small municipalities. “If we can boost the inherent local pride of the Latvian people on a micro and macro level, municipalities will gain a lot”, says Kārlis Pots, PR Project Manage...

Last week the board members of the Innovation Circle Network met in Riga to discuss the latest issues and brainstorm on new tasks. Besides collecting ideas for future projects the ICN board members decided that the scene for the next annual conferenc...

Artpaddeling is the keyword for a unique experience that the association Yellow House in Uddebo offers to locals and visitors. Here, you are invited to be part of a new cultural event that brings you within touching distance of the beautiful nature b...

There must be something special about Jelgava in Latvia, not only the famous actor Jackie Chan visited the place, now an international delegation is attending the latest Trans in Form workshop in Jelgava, Latvia discussing “Place Marketing as a way t...

The idea of making your town more attractive has been central to the Trans-in-Form INTERREG project in which several IC members are partners. Now an ESPON Report from the “ATTREG” project has researched this project and published its findings. It p...

Limmared in Sweden is no longer just a small village in Tranemo municipality. Thanks to the opening of the unique Glass House it is now the Home of Glass. Here, one can find not only the oldest glass factory in Sweden where the famous “Absolut Vodka”...

The Trans in Form project has been launched as project of the day on eu.baltic.net. TiF started with aim to transform rural regions by launching scenarios, new narratives and attractive urban design and will end in September 2012. Besides a summary d...

The fifth edition of the Suwalki Blues Festvial will again unite musicians from all over the globe to bring the blues into town. From 12th to 14th of July the city of Suwalki will turn into huge blues arena. Look forward to blues acts from the US, Ru...

There is much concern at present about the plight of town centres, especially in small and medium-sized towns. There are many more empty shops as the economic problems hit consumers and businesses. However, there are also structural underlying proble...