The Monitoring Committee meeting held on 13-14 November 2024 ended with the selection of 21 new projects for funding.
Cooperation wins: 21 projects selected for funding! – Interreg Baltic Sea Region
Unfortunately, the D-Twin Baltic application was not among the selected projects.

Today, 21^st of June, the lead partner, Paulius Rapalis, Klaipeda University, submitted the D-Twin Baltic application through the online BAMOS+ system.

The application has been detailed through a strong collaborative effort by the project partners. The start of the three year project is planned to the 1^st of March 2025 in case of positive evaluation.

During the last two and a half months the project consortium has been working hard to enlarge and finalise the partnership.

Klaipeda University (LT) will be the lead partner in the application for the regular Interreg Baltic Sea Region project.
Lund University (SE) – project partner
Deponigas APS (DK) – project partner
UAB Klaipėda Region Waste Management Center (LT) – project partner
Baltic Energy Innovation Centre (SE) – project partner
Eco-Construction (PL) – project partner
NSR AB (SE) – project partner
Lithuanian Energy Institute (LT) – project partner
Liepajas RAS Ltd (LV) – project partner

SC “Klaipėdos vanduo” (LT) – associated organisation
European Biogas Association (BE) – associated organisation
Biochar Tech Sweden AB (SE) – associated organisation
Swedish Waste Management Association (SE) – associated organisation

The D-Twin Baltic project consortium has been expanded with the following partners:
Eco-Construction, PL
Laipejas RAS, LV
Deponigas ApS, DK

Previous members are:
Lithuanian Energy Institute, LT
Lund University, SE
Klaipeda University, LT (Lead Partner, Interreg application)
NSR AB, SE
Gas Institute of NASU, UA
Baltic Energy Innovation Centre, SE (coordinator – seed funding project)

Discussions are ongoing with:
KRATC, LT

Klaipedos venduo has expressed an interest to be part of the application for a regular Interreg project as an Associated Organisation.

The Project Idea Form (PIF) has been submitted to the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme as the first step to get access to the online submission system.

On the 26^th of March NSR and BEIC meet at RecoPark in Helsingborg to discuss the participation in the application for a regular D-Twin Baltic Interreg project.

Rickard Heed, Linn Möller, Kent Davidsson and Eva Stål, NSR and  Jörgen Held, BEIC participated in the meeting.

The meeting ended with a highly appreciated guided tour by Kent Davidsson and Linn Möller.

On the 21^st of March, the D-Twin Baltic online consortium meeting took place.

Following delegates participated:
Hesameddin Fatehi, Lund University
Adolfas Jancauskas, LEI
Marcus Lundgren, Lund University
Paulius Rapalis, Klaipeda University (KU)
Nerijus Striugas, LEI
Olexeiy Verbovskij, Gas Institute NASU
Hennadiy Zhuk, Gas Institute NASU
Jörgen Held, Baltic Energy innovation Centre (BEIC)

The seed funding project has been prolonged until 30 November 2024 and Klaipeda University will take the Lead Partner role regarding the application for a regular Interreg project.

The next project meeting is scheduled to the 8^th of April at 13:00 CET.

The Swedish Institute has accepted a prolongation of the D-Twin Baltic seed funding project until end of November 2024.

Klaipeda University will take the Lead Partner role in the application for a regular Interreg project.

On the 31^st of January BEIC applied for a prolongation of D-Twin Baltic with 6 months to be able to find a new Lead Partner for the application of a regular Interreg project, strengthen the project consortium and define roles and responsibilities.

If approved by the Swedish Institute, the new end date will be the 30^th of September 2024.