For culture actors
- Organise an exhibition, concert, lecture, panel discussion or guided tour with a Baltic Sea or water-related theme.
- Organise a Baltic Sea or waterway-themed workshop for adults and/or children.
- Set up an activity corner for children, where they can use the Baltic Sea Moment campaign’s ready-made storytelling materials: Baltic Sea Moment campaign.
- Create a Baltic Sea-themed installation inside the museum or outside in the yard – something that visitors can actively take part in.
- Serve Baltic Sea Menu meals and snacks at the café.
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For libraries
- Put together a book nook or display of sea-themed books in honour of Baltic Sea Day.
- Share sea-related reading tips on social media or organise a book club for sea-themed books.
- Organise a poetry recital or competition on a sea- and water-related theme.
- Hold a lecture or movie night in the library on a Baltic Sea or water-related theme.
- Set up a Baltic Sea activity corner for children and hold storytelling sessions.
- You can use the Baltic Sea Day’s ready-made story and activity materials.
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For restaurants, canteens and cafes
- Have your café or restaurant serve food from Baltic Sea Menu, either on Baltic Sea Day itself or for longer, for example, during August or even all year round! You can create anything from a single dish to an entire menu.
- Advertise a celebration menu: Coffee and carrot/beetroot/lingonberry cake or pie and tell your customers about the Baltic Sea diet.
- Share a video of your Baltic Sea-friendly dish being prepared and challenge other restaurants and chefs or yous customers on social media.
- Share Baltic Sea-friendly recipe tips in your channels, or tell people about the Baltic Sea menu served in your restaurant.
- Use Baltic Sea-friendly ingredients to put together a picnic basket or a home-cook menu bag that people can collect from your restaurant.
- Organise a Baltic Sea competition for your customers and social media followers. Ask your customers for seafood requests, and get them to vote for the most beautiful Baltic Sea dish. You can also ask people to share their Baltic Sea-friendly recipe ideas and/or a photo of a Baltic Sea-friendly dish they made at home.
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For schools and day care centres – education
- Baltic Sea Day provides schools and daycare centres with a Baltic Sea story and related activities: a comic strip to fill in and a picture to colour. At daycare centres, you can read or play the story and give the kids a picture to colour in while they listen.
- You can also hold a Baltic Sea-themed morning assembly for schoolchildren, by playing the story in classrooms or over the central radio. Afterwards, the children can come up with their own texts for the comic strip and you can chat about the story together.
- Take a nature hike by the water. Before setting out, you can talk about how to treat nature properly. Pay attention to your surroundings and enjoy the natural world. You can later utilise this experience in kindergarten games or school subjects. For example, the kids could write an essay about the day or do some related arts and crafts.
- Why not learn about Baltic Sea nature and then create a sea-themed theatre performance or artwork? Together, you can learn about the various ways in which we can protect marine nature in our daily lives. The children can then make their own comic, poster or drawing about their chosen conservation methods.
- Serve Baltic Sea-friendly food at your school or daycare centre.
- In home economics classes, you can discuss consumption and food choices from the perspective of the Baltic Sea and the climate.
- Book a free Baltic Sea lesson for your school through the Finnish Nature League (only in Finland).
- Play to save the Baltic Sea! In the John Nurminen Foundation’s game Splash, you play a marine conservation superhero whose mission is to save the Baltic Sea. You can play the game in Finnish and English on a computer, phone or tablet. You can also play together, so that an adult projects the game while the kids figure out the answers with help from an adult as necessary.
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For companies – all sizes!
- Organise a Baltic Sea briefing for your employees: a webinar, an interview with a Baltic Sea expert, or a quiz.Organise a Baltic Sea photo competition or share your sea-related memories within your work community or on social media.
- Have a wellbeing at work day – go on a nature hike by the Baltic Sea or some other body of water. Take some outdoor exercise, go standup paddleboarding or rowing, or visit a lighthouse. Remember to treat nature properly during this flurry of activity.
- Serve meals from the Baltic Sea Menu at the staff canteen, or make lunch together, following the ideas of the menu.
- Clean up trash from the shores. Remember to ensure that the trash you collect is dispensed of appropriately. Sign your team up for this joint effort, and read tips on the Clean Beach website.
- Encourage your personnel to calculate their Baltic Sea footprint.
- Organise a Baltic Sea-themed photo competition, or share your marine memories within your work community or in social media.
- Organize a book club for marine-themed books.
- Make everyone take The Plunge at 6 pm.
- Participate in a Baltic Sea Moment by e.g. visiting a sea-themed exhibition, or by organising a marine movie moment for your staff.
- Organise a public event with a Baltic Sea or water theme.
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For NGOs: associations and foundations
- Encourage your members to make a Baltic Sea Pledge on Baltic Sea Day and share it on social media.
- Organise a public event and share information about your activities. Contact a municipal operator (such as libraries or urban culture organisations) and offer them content for Baltic Sea Day.
- Organise a litter collection event for members: provide litter pickers, rubbish bags and gloves. Remember to dispose of the litter correctly.
- Arrange a picnic on the beach or a joint dip in the water for your members at 6 pm.
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For cities and municipalities
- Organise an event for locals in the market square: give organisations, educational institutions and others the opportunity to present sustainable action to residents. You can highlight Baltic Sea Day at swimming pools along with the need for swimming skills. You can utilise Baltic Sea Day visuals to let residents know about environmentally friendly hobbies.
- Organise a litter collection event by the water.
- Organise a discussion event for residents on a water-related or cultural topic.
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For tourism operators
- Announce Baltic Sea -discount on the hotel rooms
- Serve Baltic Sea -menu in the restaurant
- Tell your customers about Baltic Sea Day and market excursions in the spirit of the day.
- Organise a clean-up event in collaboration with your local environmental organisation.
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For Sport: companies, NGOs
- Opportunity to round up for the Baltic Sea (pay a little extra for sports equipment and donate to the Baltic Sea).
- Conduct an information campaign (inform about the Baltic Sea with a focus on its ecological state). For example, with a QR code or a quiz in nature. This could be linked to a discount if one answers correctly (& thereby learns about the Baltic Sea). The discount could be offered to donate.
- Offer the opportunity to contribute to research by conducting a measurement while paddling (measuring Secchi depth, reporting algal blooms, etc.).
- Organize a trash collection. Discount on sports equipment/rental if one collects trash.
- Make something interactive/gamification.
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