Integrated Nitrogen Management System for the Gulf of Riga (GURINIMAS) Source of funding Interreg Est-Lat Project website https://estlat.eu/en/gurinimas Project leader Inga Grīnfelde Duration 2017-2019 Budget 427 290.00 Project description The objective of the project is to develop an integrated nitrogen management system for the Gulf of Riga in close cooperation between Estonian and Latvian authorities and research institutions. The integrated nitrogen management system involves economy wide inventory of the nitrogen cycle and definition of the risk areas in the Gulf of Riga catchment where to act. This means the development and implementation of the model that follows the Impact-Pathway-Source approach to propose the most cost-efficient and effective measures for increasing the efficiency of use of N and reducing N losses. The new Integrated Nitrogen Management system, to be developed in current Project, will provide a harmonised framework for participating states – Estonia and Latvia, to be implemented afterwards by Estonia and Latvian authorities. The implementation will be based on the existing river basin management plans and marine strategies and in frames of the existing bilateral and regional cooperation arrangements. Project partners Estonian Ministry of Environment, Tallinn University of Technology, Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, Latvian University of Agriculture, Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava", Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology
