diff --git a/.env b/.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88c76981d85f1e298c0c03d911a28e8edaace6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.env
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_API_URL = 'https://corsproxy.io/?https://pdmap.uni.lu/minerva/api'
+NEXT_PUBLIC_PROJECT_ID = 'pd_map_winter_23'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/constants/api.ts b/src/constants/api.ts
index f3ebe0ec039ef618048a28016238eb1733bbf817..d768f3c62c83a2fdc4cb554075cb6e301f1f2584 100644
--- a/src/constants/api.ts
+++ b/src/constants/api.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const BASE_API_URL = 'https://corsproxy.io/?https://pdmap.uni.lu/minerva/api';
+export const BASE_API_URL = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_API_URL || '';
diff --git a/src/constants/mapId.ts b/src/constants/mapId.ts
index 6c76bb7077257c89dfba0c0b92bfb769e9f6e676..52dd8ff833cdccb1b05eb2e1ffeb7e2db44282f1 100644
--- a/src/constants/mapId.ts
+++ b/src/constants/mapId.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const PROJECT_ID = 'pd_map_winter_23';
+export const PROJECT_ID = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PROJECT_ID || '';