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

Flagship Projects Sendai Framework

Project Development Workshop on addressing Climate Change Risks

Partners in the CRCC: Making Communities Resilient to Climate Change: Cross-Sectorial Cooperation in Capacity-building-project, funded by the Swedish Institute, met in Stockholm 18-19 January 2017 to discuss the way forward with the cooperation, and to plan on how to proceed with a project application to the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO)…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 20, 20170Comments

Flagship Projects Sendai Framework

Civil Security and Climate Change Adaptation specialists find synergies for a new project

The first partner meeting for the CRCC: Making Communities Resilient to Climate Change: Cross-Sectorial Cooperation in Capacity-building project was held back to back with the 7th Annual Meeting of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction, 5 October in Helsinki, Finland. The project was granted seed funding from the Swedish Institute this summer and will…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 5, 20160Comments

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

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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

Voices from the Baltic Leadership Programme – Adrian Bucalowski

"The strength of the BSR region is very visible. " about the course? It is good that the course combines both academic and practical perspectives and that we are touching on social media, on building the culture of safety in an organisation and an atmosphere for making improvements. Now I will think of my work…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices of the Baltic Leadership Programme – Jürgen Krempin

"Now I have new partners that I will be able to contact directly " about the course? I know 8 or 9 people here already from the activities we have had before. However, it is always good to meet regularly and to strengthen our network. Here we can all bring our assets, our impacts – how we are dealing…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments