The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region unites the countries of the Baltic Sea Region (Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland) sharing the goal to enhance their cooperation and tacklecommon challenges and threats. The Strategy comprises 15 priority areas, many horizontal actions and approximately 90 flagship projects aimed at achieving goals in the areas of energy, transport, environmental protection, research and innovations, fight against criminality, education, tourism etc. The Strategy Action Plan is updated on a regular basis.