The Round table "Sustainable development in rural and urban areas: the experience of the Baltic Sea" will focus on the strategies, models and tools for the development of sustainable partnerships between urban and rural areas, which should become a key chain in the formation of a new strategy for rural-urban sustainable territorial planning. A necessary condition for achieving this objective is the exchange of knowledge and experience of successful urban-rural partnerships planning in the Baltic Sea Region as well as the introduction of modern technologies aimed at: - resource-efficient, energy saving and eco-innovative urban-rural development (renewable energy sources such as biogas, solar panels and wind turbines, vertical gardens and green roofs, modern technologies in the field of effective wildlife management) promotion of rural agricultural and eco-tourism - reducing the distance from the places of production to the place of consumption, by supporting local farming (Food Miles strategy) - ecovillages as one of the socio-economic dimensions of sustainable development in rural and urban areas - promotion of the environmental rural lifestyle by involving urban population