From 23-26 November 2015, the second Baltic Leadership Programme for Future Decision makers took place in Warsaw, with around 30 Civil Protection professionals from the 11 CBSS member states. After a great kick-off with Helena Lindberg, Director General of the Swedish Contingencies Agency, Ambassador Michal Czyz, representing the Polish Presidency, Åsa Lundmark from the Swedish…
For the second Seminar of Task C & D, the partners of the flagship project From Gaps to Caps gathered in Tallinn. Since their last meeting in May, the task leaders had collected information on the respective methods of capability assessment in the different countries, as well as evaluations of exercises and emergencies. With these…
“In many countries the civil protection agencies are very efficient in both response time and prevention and yet still certain accidents don’t seem to decrease. We need to move beyond traditional approaches and have a more holistic perspective to resilience”
Professor Jerzy Wolanin, Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw
The final conference of BaltPrevResilience, a…
We are proud to announce that the flagship From Gaps to Caps has launched its own website. The page gives an overview of the people and organisations involved, shows the project timeline and serves as a platform for updates and publications. Over the last year, the Communications team of the CBSS, who is leading task B…
The From Gaps to Caps Team reunited in Riga at the end of May for seminars on Task C & D.
The task leaders, Björn Karlsson from the University of Iceland and Jürgen Krempin from the Fire & Rescue Department Hamburg, guided the partners through the results achieved so far and the next steps ahead.…
"Sometimes the smallest idea is the most useful"
about international cooperation?
"We have a saying in Estonian, 'to get stuck in a “frog’s pond', meaning if you only swim back and forth in the same small pond - you cannot really learn from that. So if you spend too much time in Estonia with your problems,…
"We like having guidelines, but we prefer having non-binding guidelines"
international cooperation?
"For me personally, in my job international cooperation means almost everything - because it is what I do on a daily basis. But also, I think that most countries in this group are small countries,…
"Looking back helps us to look into the future"
about international cooperation?
"I have been participating in different EU- and NATO courses. They have given me a lot of contacts, which I have used to improve our systems. The Estonian system is quite new actually, and that is why we have tried to use…
"International cooperation is now more substantive. I think this is really going forward and it should."
about international cooperation?
"Our challenges are structural but also cultural, I think that people are having national minds and in that sense international cooperation is not as established in civil protection as it is in other areas. The EU cooperation in…
"It is good to get out of the daily routine, to take a step back and see the bigger picture"
about the programme?
"It is an important possibility to meet other people from around the Baltic Sea Region and to exchange ideas and experiences. Networking is good and to have a face to countries we are working with - for me…