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PA Secure and HA Climate colleagues interview on CASCADE project for #DRRDay

Valdur Lahtvee and Katie Goldie-Ryder, both working at the CBSS Secretariat in Stockholm, reflect on the synergies between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and on their tasks in the CASCADE project: VL: CBSS is the sole coordinator of the Horizontal Action Climate of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) and at the same time…

October 13, 2020

PA Secure

Workshop addresses security risks related to climate change

On 12 October 2020, the CBSS Secretariat (PA Secure and HA Climate) and the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) Sustainable City Commission co-organised an online workshop within the EUSBSR 11th Annual Forum: Reducing security risks related to the climate change and mainstreaming climate agenda in EUSBSR after 2020. There are several current climate change-related security…

October 12, 2020

PA Secure

Experts discussed risks and potential of digitalisation in ports and at sea

On 28 September 2020, together with the colleagues from PA Safe and PA Ship, PA Secure organised a workshop on digitalisation within the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2020. Digitalisation is a driver of innovation and sustainability across all sectors, it effectively addresses many of the global challenges that citizens and businesses face today. Digitalisation also affects…

September 28, 2020

Research

CBSS kicks off new project to institutionalise societal security education

The project kick-off for Needs-based Education and Studies in Societal Security (NEEDS) was held online on 22 nd and 24 th September 2020. Janusz Gąciarz , Senior Adviser for Civil Security at CBSS welcomed the meeting participants and explained the historical development as well as the rationale of the NEEDS project. The…

September 28, 2020

Children/Youth

New CBSS-led project explores the role of children and youth in BSR resilience

The ChYResilience Project – Th e role of children and youth in building a resilient society , started 1 September 2020. ChYResilience aims to empower children and youth to play an active role as contributors to societal resilience and to remove barriers to their active involvement in prevention, preparedness , response, and recovery. The…

September 3, 2020

Civil Protection

DGs for Civil Protection in the BSR gather online for their 18th meeting

On 8 June 2020, the Danish chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network hosted the 18th Meeting of the Directors General for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region. This meeting concluded the yearlong Danish chairmanship, which was dedicated to climate change, resilience as well as to cooperation with civil society. Due to the COVID-19…

June 22, 2020

Children/Youth

PA Secure at the second Baltic Sea Youth Camp

The second Baltic Sea Youth Camp (BSYC) was organised online on 12-13 June 2020. This virtual camp was held within the Baltic Sea Youth Platform , a platform for young people, initiated by young visionaries in the Baltic Sea Region. The BSYC gather ed young people from the Baltic Sea…

June 16, 2020

Civil Protection

Baltic-Nordic Preparatory Teleconference Ahead of the Wildfire Season

Еhe forest fire season is already here, there are several reported grass and wildfires across northern Europe. Forecasts indicate challenging conditions and the ongoing Covid-19 crises puts further pressure on our respective response systems. On April 21, 2020, Sweden (through MSB) organized the second Baltic-Nordic annual meeting to inform each other on the preparedness for…

April 21, 2020

PA Secure

PA Secure Monitoring and Evaluation report complete

The Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat commissioned a report “ An Evaluation of the Development and Effectiveness of Policy Area Secure 2013-2019 ” in order to assess the overall achievements throughout the entire PA Secure 2013 - 2020 period, and to work out the premise for formulating recommendations for the operation of…

April 17, 2020