Women in Civil Protection @ 4th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR

PA Secure will be organising two meetings back-to-back with the 4th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR. Both meetings touch upon important, but perhaps not widely discussed, themes relevant to the macro-regional policy frameworks on cooperation- gender and cross-sectoral cross-border cooperation. These are themes that lie at the core of our region’s aims for prosperity and…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 9, 20130Comments

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What is Citizens for Safety?

Citizens for Safety is a working title for a flagship project, defined in the Action Plan as follows: Effective learning and exchanging best practices on urban safety through a local city network. The network fosters urban safety exchanges throughout Baltic Sea region on locally-developed know-how strategies, shares experiences, analyses functions and activities of municipalities and…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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Project Idea Formulated

One step further– in September 2013 the project partnership, that now consists of Gdansk Municipal Guard, Riga Municipality Police, Vilnius City Municipality, Tallinn Municipality Police, and Liepaja Municipality Police, formulated a project idea and applied for funding from the EUSBSR Seed Money Facility. The flagship project idea has been developed to identify safety and security…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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Why BRISK?

Why BRISK? Despite its small size, the Baltic Sea is one of the most heavily trafficked seas in the world. Commercial and industrial shipping, particularly oil shipping, in the Baltic Sea has been growing steadily over the past years, increasing the risk of spills of oil and other hazardous substances. Spills can have strong negative…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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What does BRISK do?

What does BRISK do? To put it simply, BRISK operated through four main aims. Providing a comprehensive risk assessment of pollution caused by shipping accidents in the Baltic Sea. Identifying gaps in emergency and responses resources for medium sized spills in all sub-regions of the Baltic Sea. Creating concrete pre-investment plans on how the Baltic…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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What is BaltPrevResilience?

BaltPrevResilience is created as a response to the multiple everyday accidents that occur in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims to prevent such accidents and reduce their impacts by improving the prerequisites for collection and analysis of impact and response data at the local level. The project will do so by introducing a process…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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What is the Baltic Leadership Programme?

What is the Baltic Leadership Programme? The goal of the Baltic Leadership Programme is to form a network of key civil protection actors in the Baltic Sea region and equip them with the tools and information needed to manage cross-border collaboration and projects between diverse organisations in an intercultural context. The programme was initiated…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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The Design of the Programme

The Design of the Programme Baltic Leadership Programme was built in two modules: one in Stockholm and another in Brussels. Each module brings together 10-20 representatives from national and/or regional civil protection authorities from the EU Baltic Sea region Member States. Throughout the modules, discussions aim to provide participants with information about political settings and…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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Highlights of the Programme – Module Two in Brussels

Highlights of the Programme – Module Two in Brussels Highlights of the Baltic Leadership Programme during the week in Brussels were meetings with officials of the European commission, DG REGIO and DG ECHO, as well as visit to the European Parliament. On the occasion of the programme, a discussion and reception was organised at the…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

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The Development of 14.3 Training

14.3 Training 14.3 Training is created as a direct follow-up project from 14.3 which ran from January 2012 to June 2013. 14.3 was a flagship project within PA Secure which focused on developing scenarios and identifying gaps for all main disaster hazards, and the potential of such hazards, in the Baltic Sea region. 14.3 Training…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments