Working paper explores common societal security culture in the Baltic Sea Region

This paper was commissioned by PA Secure, and authored by Professor Jerzy Wolanin from Main School of Fire Service, Warsaw, with contributions and editing provided by the PA Secure Team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat. The paper presents a comprehensive set of recommendations regarding the implementation of a common societal security…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 29, 20170Comments

Civil Protection

Macro-regional cooperation: a vital need for societal security in the Baltic Sea Region

Interview with Professor Bengt Sundelius, Strategic Adviser to the Director General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) CBSS Civil Security team met with Professor Sundelius to discuss the need for international cooperation in the field of civil protection, the examples of such cooperation and the future challenges for the Baltic Sea Region. Bengt Sundelius is Professor…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 20, 20170Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects Research

CBSS helps bringing state-of-the-art Fire and Rescue Technologies to the Region

CBSS Secretariat's Civil Protection team participated in a kick-off meeting of the new project, FIRE-IN, set to improve national and European fire and rescue capability development. FIRE-IN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme and consists of 16 partners from 8 European countries, representing research, practitioners, governmental agencies and business. Within…

Byadmin_bsrMay 24, 20170Comments

Civil Protection

Directors General for Civil Protection adopt Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in BSR

The Directors General for the Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region held their 15th meeting, which took place in Iceland on 11 May 2017. The meeting, chaired by Hjálmar Björgvinsson, Superintendent at the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, resulted in an adoption of a historic Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection…

Byadmin_bsrMay 11, 20170Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Gaps to Caps final report

The project started off with the question “Do we have the capability/capabilities needed to deal with the risks we are currently facing?.” Final report on national capability assessments and risk assessments is published together with a survey among all project partners. This report gives an overview of relevant aspects of the civil protection systems involved, differences and…

Byadmin_bsrFebruary 23, 20170Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects

From Gaps to Caps: third project seminar in Hamburg

The partners of the flagship project From Gaps to Caps: Risk Management Capacity Based on Gaps Identification in the BSR, had its third project seminar in Hamburg with a presentation on MSB guidance on scenario analysis and a workshop understanding how emergency response capability can be assessed in the Baltic Sea Region in June 2016. The…

Byadmin_bsrAugust 9, 20160Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Renaming of the Baltic Leadership Programme (BLP)

On 19 February 2016, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Stockholm, together with the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service of the Republic of Poland (KGSP) and the CBSS Secretariat, co-hosted a seminar focusing on the BLP and future development of the leadership programme. The way ahead, after the end of financial…

Byadmin_bsrAugust 9, 20160Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices of the Baltic Leadership progarmme – Camilla Sieljaks

"The region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations" about international cooperation? At DEMA we work on a policy level with the EU and NATO and Nordic cooperation and of course also the CBSS. But given that the region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices from the Baltic Leadership Programme – Heikki Laurikainen

"Projects come to an end, but the culture of cooperation remains. " about international cooperation? I would say it is very important to have. When you meet people from abroad, it is not necessarily that you come up with a detailed project that would work instantly and smoothly. But in the long run it’s important…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

VOICES FROM THE BALTIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME – Mariia Karagacheva

"New contacts, new experience, new thinking " about the course? It is a very interesting course, with great speakers. But it is even more interesting to have conversations during the breaks, when people talk about their real challenges and successes at work, their concrete experiences that I can identify with. I can get a lot from these…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments