WP10: Sustainability

A project’s true success is not measured only by what it achieves during its lifetime, but by what endures after it ends. 

The project is dedicated to securing that lasting legacy. Its focus is on ensuring that the tools, knowledge, and networks created by the project remain useful, relevant, and influential well into the future. 

Work Package 10 (WP10) is led by Paul Trouth from the HELCOM Secretariat, and is designed to secure the long-term success of the project by focusing on sustainability and exploitation of its results. 

Sustainability is not only about safeguarding results, but also about ensuring they are used. 

Strong emphasis is placed on collaboration with Communication activities under Work Package 9 to ensure that the project engages with policy stakeholders, creating content through which scientific and technical insights can be transformed into practical measures. 

By keeping decision-makers engaged throughout, the project increases the likelihood that its recommendations will be taken up in marine protection strategies at national and regional levels. 

As the project reaches its conclusion, it will deliver an after-project plan to put in place a longer-term roadmap for making use of the project's results and deliverables. 

This will set out how to preserve and build on what has been achieved—ensuring that the outputs are not just archived, but actively used to support marine protection and shape a strong and more resilient network of MPAs across the Baltic Sea in the future.