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BSR youth learns to work together for safer region

The first Baltic Youth Camp was organised in Gdansk on 8-11 June 2019 in days leading to the EUSBSR 10th Annual Forum. The Camp was planned as a three-day festival where youth representatives from the Baltic Sea Region gather to explore friendship, culture and politics through workshops, small seminars and social activities. PA Secure's contribution to…

June 13, 2019

PA Secure Sendai Framework

PA Secure presents EUSBSR cooperation and CASCADE at ECCA

28 – 31 May 2019, Lisbon, Portugal. “Not acting is not an option – Climate Change is a current problem and the last four years have been the hottest ever” stressed João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Portugal's Minister of the Environment and Energy Transition, in his opening remarks for the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference…

June 1, 2019

Civil Protection

17th Meeting of DGs for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region in Riga

On 28-29 May 2019, the Latvian chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network hosted the 17th Meeting of the Directors General for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region. The meeting concluded the eventful chairmanship, during which the Latvian Fire and Rescue Service initiated several joint activities, including the BLP Alumni Conference in Riga and…

May 30, 2019

Sendai Framework

PA Secure at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019

13-17 May 2019, Geneva. Throughout the week, 4,000 people debated the most important achievements and challenges in the implementation of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. More than 170 countries were represented at the Global Platform along with dozens of international and regional organisations from five continents. Over 150 different events took place. Mami…

May 19, 2019

Flagship Projects Research

Fire and Rescue Innovation Network grows. FIRE-IN in Barcelona

Catalan Fire and Rescue Service hosted the second Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project in Barcelona on 15 May 2019. FIRE-IN (Fire and Rescue Innovation Network) is a five-year Horizon 2020 project, which started in 2017 with an aim to identify practitioners’ current needs and connect them with relevant innovative solutions, research and standardisation…

May 17, 2019

PA Secure

Policy Area Secure met in Stockholm for a Workshop and the 11th Steering Group meeting

On 6 – 8 May 2019, the Policy Area Secure Steering Group gathered in Stockholm for a workshop on effective strategies for stakeholder engagement, and to discuss updates and future actions in the spring Steering Group meeting. The workshop “The Baltic Sea Region – an interconnected system: PA Secure – planning for policy impact” offered the…

May 7, 2019

Flagship Projects Volunteerism

PA Secure visit to Denmark: rescue volunteers, youth and veterans

On 28 of March 2019, PA Secure's Andriy Martynenko, Adviser at the CBSS Secretariat, was invited to present PA Secure, FIRE-IN project and the CBSS civil security activities at the symposium in the city of Sønderborg (Denmark). The symposium was organised by the Nordic Dialogue and gathered more than 50 participants from Danish fire and…

March 29, 2019

Research

Roadmap for societal security research in the Baltic Sea Region – on the way

On 27-28 March, in Warsaw, Poland The Main School of Fire Service (SGSP) hosted the 3rd meeting of the Baltic Sea Region Research Network on Societal Security (BSR-RNSS) project (funded by the Swedish Institute). The project aims to support demand-driven research by bringing researchers in the field of societal security closer to the practitioners.…

March 29, 2019

Law enforcement

First Baltic Border Committee under Danish Presidency in BSRBCC

5-7 March 2019, Helsingør, Denmark. The first Baltic Border Committee (BBC) meeting under the Danish Presidency in the Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC) gathered representatives from the police, border and coast guard as well as customs authorities from Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, as well as from the…

March 8, 2019