Baltic Leadership Programme in Civil Security Alumni conference in Riga

The Latvian Chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network – the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia, in cooperation with the CBSS Secretariat, the Swedish Institute, EUSBSR Policy Area Secure and Riga Stradiņš University, hosted the Baltic Leadership Program (BLP) in Civil Protection Alumni outreach event and conference “Societal security in the Baltic Sea…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 27, 20180Comments

Sendai Framework

PA Secure at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction 2018

The 2018 European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) was held 21-23 November 2018 in Rome, Italy. The EFDRR, as Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, is recognised by the UN General Assembly as the main forum at the regional level for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and the review of progress in the implementation…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 23, 20180Comments

Research

University of Tromsø Societal Security Workshop

On 15-16 November this annual conference gathered researchers and affiliated organizations to discuss current issues in societal security research. Three keynote speeches were provided by Professor Bengt Sundelius (Swedish Defence University), Professor Arjen Boin (Leiden University) and Professor Jonas Johansson (Lund University). Ongoing research projects with their tentative results were also presented as well as…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 16, 20180Comments

Sendai Framework

At NOCCA conference: connecting DRR and Climate Change Adaptation

The CBSS Secretariat is responsible for the policy dialogue in the CASCADE project (Community Safety Action for Supporting Climate Adaptation and Development), starting in January 2019. CASCADE will seek to improve urban resilience in cities and towns, as well as overall macro-regional resilience. The expected outcome of CASCADE is to adapt existing risk assessment methodology…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 29, 20180Comments

Flagship Projects

Interreg BSR clusters projects to maximise the results

The Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme invited the leaders and core partners of the first call for the project platforms as well as the coordinators of the EUSBSR to a kick-off meeting on 17 October 2018 in Riga. The project platforms gather projects with similar objectives, or complementary aims, in the…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 18, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

2nd Baltic Border Committee under Swedish Chairmanship in BSRBCC

The second Baltic Border Committee under the Swedish Chairmanship in the Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC), gathered in Malmö, Sweden on 9-11 October 2018, to discuss current issues of cooperation in protecting external borders. The newly launched www.bsrbcc.org website was presented to the participants as well as the Action Plan for the upcoming Danish…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 12, 20180Comments

CBRN

EU project educates 30 CBRN security managers, publishes a CBRN handbook

46 days/419 hours of special training, the combination of practice and theory with emphasis on practical field exercises has delivered 30 new CBRN Security Managers to Europe! This is the result of the SE-CBRN-URE project funded by the Internal Security Fund (EC DG HOME). "We have educated a group of highly specialised CBRN Security Managers,"…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 12, 20180Comments

CBRN

STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting – preparing for a bigger CBRNE forum

STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting on 8-9 October 2018 in Riga was the third meeting in the project Strengthening the Transnational Capacity of the Management of CBRNE Agents related Emergencies, funded by the Swedish Institute. During the first two workshops, the partners identified common gaps and capability challenges in crisis management of hazardous substances in the…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 10, 20180Comments

Research

BSR-RNSS project kick-off: linking research results and end-users

Currently, in the field of civil security in the Baltic Sea Region, there is no common or standard mechanism to ensure the use of results from research to the fullest. This means that much of the output from extensive research projects is not reaching practitioners and is not contributing to saving human lives and valuable property. The…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 4, 20180Comments

Sendai Framework

CBSS at UNISDR Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework

The CBSS Secretariat’s Senior Advisor for Civil Security, Janusz Gąciarz took part in the Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by UNISDR in Bonn on 25-26 September 2018. The meeting gathered regional intergovernmental organisations from all continents to discuss the use of the Sendai…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 27, 20180Comments