This flagship project will establish a summer seminar for higher education students in order to create an appropriate platform for discussing issues that are considered of high relevance to the region, including that of cross-border cooperation initiatives between the EU Member States and Russia. This seminar will serve as an indicator for regional concerns that young future professionals and academics may have about the future of the Baltic Sea region. It will also bring together interested higher education institutions in the region in a dialogue that may lead to closer collaboration on practices to further academic inquiry into the issue of macro-regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea region (including formalised joint courses/programmes on subjects tailored to regional needs).