Partners in the CRCC: Making Communities Resilient to Climate Change: Cross-Sectorial Cooperation in Capacity-building-project, funded by the Swedish Institute, met in Stockholm 18-19 January 2017 to discuss the way forward with the cooperation, and to plan on how to proceed with a project application to the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO)…
PA Secure team of the CBSS Secretariat and the Network of Prosecutors on Environmental Crime in the Baltic Sea Region (ENPRO), represented by the network’s President, Dr. Ewald Brandt, agreed on further steps to increase cooperation in 2017. Improving visibility and inclusiveness of the ENPRO activities were among the potential cooperation areas, discussed in the…
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CBSS Secretariat delegation participated in the annual strategic meeting of the Baltic Sea Task Force on organized crime (BSTF) in Moscow.
The participants discussed existing security threats and challenges in the Baltic Sea Region, potential cross-border operations for police and customs as well as elaborated on creation of roadmaps in battling organized crime in the region.
Deputy…
How to better coordinate the work of different EUSBSR priority areas and horizontal actions? Coordinators (HACs and PACs), invited to Stockholm by HA Capacity and the Swedish Institute, discussed common issues and needs for capacity building in 2017. Participants exchanged ideas about funding, facilitation of projects, cross-sectoral cooperation and communication, and suggested possible topics for…
The first partner meeting for the CRCC: Making Communities Resilient to Climate Change: Cross-Sectorial Cooperation in Capacity-building project was held back to back with the 7th Annual Meeting of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, 5 October in Helsinki, Finland. The project was granted seed funding from the Swedish Institute this summer and will…
The partners of the flagship project From Gaps to Caps: Risk Management Capacity Based on Gaps Identification in the BSR, had its third project seminar in Hamburg with a presentation on MSB guidance on scenario analysis and a workshop understanding how emergency response capability can be assessed in the Baltic Sea Region in June 2016.
The…
On 19 February 2016, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Stockholm, together with the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service of the Republic of Poland (KGSP) and the CBSS Secretariat, co-hosted a seminar focusing on the BLP and future development of the leadership programme. The way ahead, after the end of financial…
The 5th EUSBSR Priority Area Secure Steering Group Meeting was held in Kraków 13 May 2016. The participants overviewed the progress achieved by the priority area flagships projects, discussed the issues of the institutionalisation of the Baltic Leadership Prorgamme, as well as considered the granting of flagship status to new projects.
The next Steering Group Meeting will be held…
"The region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations"
about international cooperation?
At DEMA we work on a policy level with the EU and NATO and Nordic cooperation and of course also the CBSS. But given that the region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations…