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PA Secure Steering Group met in Hamburg for 18th time: dumped munitions and crisis communication in focus

On 15-16 December 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met in Hamburg, hosted by the Hamburg Fire and Rescue Service. Except the usual exchange of latest activities, discussion on progress of Joint Position implementation, the participants from 9 countries received two in-depth briefings by experts: on dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea and on…

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17th PA Secure Steering Group meeting

On 1 June 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met physically for the first time since 2019. The meeting, hosted by the Norwegian DSB in Oslo included participants from eight Member States in the region. The members expressed the need to go deeper into certain civil security issues in the next Steering Group meetings in order to maximise the…

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CBSS CPN Senior Experts reaffirmed interest in BSR cooperation, confirmed synergies with PA Secure

The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), current chair of the CBSS Civil Protection Network, hosted a meeting for CPN Senior Experts on 5-6 April 2022 in Tønsberg, home to DSB headquarters.  14 participants from 7 countries attended the meeting, which was the first physical gathering of the network after the pause caused by the pandemic.…

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Victims, helpers or partners? Children and youth as contributors to resilient Baltic Sea Region

During the EUSBSR 12th Annual Forum, on 29 September 2021, Policy Area Secure (PA Secure), coordinated by the CBSS Secretariat together with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) organised an online seminar dedicated to strengthening children and youth’s resilience in disasters. Children and youth’s vulnerability in disasters is expected to increase as the intensity and…

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PA SECURE TESTS WORKING IN SUB-GROUPS

During the PA Secure Steering Group 15th meeting, the Finnish Ministry of Interior presented a new initiative,  aimed at organising the international cooperation within the PA Secure into separate, focused streams.  These streams called sub-groups could provide platforms where the experts, working directly within each of the priorities of the Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection…

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New report in the NEEDS project: Societal Security as Higher Education in the Baltic Sea Region

The ‘Needs-based education and studies in Societal Security’ (NEEDS) project addresses the skills gap and mismatch between higher education and the knowledge needs in this field, as well as the fact that there is a lack of structured transnational cooperation and dialogue between higher education institutions, practitioners, and experts in tackling these issues. This report…

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