Resources
Project outputs and promotional materials will be published on this page.
Promotional material
Newsletters, posters and brochures of the POPCORN project will be added here once these are published.
Toolkit for experts and specialists dealing with marine oil spills and plastic pollution
This section includes individual tools, reports and other guidelines and publications produced during the projects APP4SEA and OIL SPILL on oil spill response, and Circular Ocean and Blue Circular Economy on marine plastics.
APP4SEA Project website
APP4SEA Smart map: http://app4sea.com/
Reports:
- Recommendations for best technological and operational practices for oil spill response in the NPA region (Häkkinen & Rytkönen 2020)
- Oil Spill Response Infrastructure in the NPA region (Hänninen, Adetunji & Pavlov 2020)
- Climatic zones in the NPA region (Pavlov, Hole & Hänninen 2020)
- Existing oil weathering databases for Arctic marine conditions (Pavlov, Hole & Hänninen 2020)
- Gap analysis and improvement suggestions for the NPA region to improve OSR infrastructure and preparedness level (Rytkönen, Jørgensen & Tonteri 2020)
- Report on oil tanker marine routes and tracking systems (Rytkönen & Santasalo 2020)
OIL SPILL Project website
Reports and other publications:
- Operational Oil Spill Response Procedures in Case of Shallow Waters and Coastal Areas – Overview and Recommendations for the Baltic Sea Region (Ministry of Environment of Estonia 2021)
- Finnish Red Cross' Final Report on NGO educational activities in co-operation with authorities (Hyvärinen 2021)
- Conducting Simulator Trainings in Oil Spill Response Training – Thoughts from the Response Crews (Kasepõld & Suzdalev 2022)
- Conducting Oil Spill Combating Training with State-of-the-art Maritime Simulators (Kasepõld, Suzdalev, Kuzmenko & Treffner 2020)
- Baltic Carrier Accident in Denmark 2001 (Friis Petersen 2020)
- Marine Environmental Preparedness in Denmark (Friis Petersen 2020)
- Managing and organizing volunteers in oil spill response (Virtanen, The Finnish National Rescue Association, 2021)
Eco-innovation toolkit
Reports and other publications:
- Eco-innovation Guide for Start-ups, Entrepreneurs & Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
- Knowledge Base Report: Booklet on knowledge base related to eco-innovation and circular economy of used fishing nets, ropes and components (FNRCs)
- Circular Ocean Digital Platform: A series of product concepts were producted that have been open sourced
- Report: Circular Ocean Innovation Laboratories (COINLabs) A new platform for eco-innovation in ports, harbours and coastal areas
- Report on port-related feasibility studies related to the collection and recycling of waste fishing nets and ropes in Greenland, Ireland, Norway and Scotland
- Report: 3D Printing Applications for Creating Products Made From Reclaimed Fishing Nets
- Review of products from Waste Fishing Nets Accessories, Clothing, Footwear, Home Ware, Recreation
Reports and scientific publications:
OIL SPILL
- OIL SPILL Final Conference 2021, see programme here
- Vellamo OSR webinar: International Collaboration, Receiving and Offering Assistance
- Incident Management & Communication – different stakeholders, during and after an emergency
- OIL SPILL in #BAOIL21 'Oil Spill Response in the Northern Baltic and Arctic Areas' Twitter conference
APP4SEA
- APP4SEA Twitter conference: Challenges of the Arctic oil spill response #APP4SEA2020
Educational and informative material for schools and other organisations
This section contains material, which have been created mainly for educational purposes in the participating projects or by POPCORN. These can be downloaded and used freely. If you have questions about these, please contact us.
Cool facts about the Arctic
Cool facts about the Arctic is a series of twitter posts, which were published regularly by APP4SEA project. Aim of these tweets was to share Arctic related information from different fields. The posts have been divided into several issues, depending on their content. The links below take you to these individual publications in issuu.com. The publications can be used as short introductions to Arctic issues from different angles.
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Flora and Fauna
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Geography
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Oil Spill Issues
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Society and Politics
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Weather and Climate
- Cool Facts about the Arctic: Quizzes
Infographics from APP4SEA project
Series of infographics were put together in APP4SEA project, which demonstrate in an educative way impacts of oil spills. The infographics were translated into English, Finnish, Icelandic and Norwegian. These files are downloadable below and can be viewed also in the image gallery . If you want to create your own language versions of these infographics, please contact us, so we can send you editable versions of the infographics.
