The name BATS derrives from Baltic Sea Region active mobility solutions.

At the meeting, all the project partners, the goals and plans of the project were introduced, and the first activities were established. In addition, ongoing projects enabling higher active mobility in the Altona district in Hamburg were introduced.

The partners of the BATS project are seven public authorities from Finland (Lahti), Sweden (Umeå), Denmark (Kalundborg), Poland (Gdansk), Lithuania (Klaipeda), Germany (Hamburg-Altona) and Estonia (Harju county), which are planning different pilot projects promoting active mobility in their regions that are participating in the project. The implementations of these pilots are supported and evaluated by Aalto University, Gdansk and Tallinn University of Technology.

From TalTech Department of Business Administration Wolfgang Gerstlberger, Mike Wahl, Liis Ojamäe and Jaana Merisaar participated in the meeting.

More information about the BATS project can be found in the TalTech website: Research Projects | TalTech