Participants’ Stories: Highlighting Common Interests

“Before participating in the programme I wanted to really see what kind of common ideas would there be with all the country representatives and what themes we could take forward after this. I found it particularly interesting to see that there is a great interest in developing this network and cooperation within the Baltic Sea…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 22, 20140Comments

Capacity building Flagship Projects

Participants’ Stories: Your Ideas can become a Reality

Dariusz is 27 and works at the National Headquarters of State Fire Service of Poland, dealing with Civil Protection Policy at the international cooperation department. One of the main portfolios he is dealing with includes issues related to the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. The question that Dariusz had after having read the invitation to participate…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 22, 20140Comments

Capacity building Flagship Projects

Participants’ Stories: Giving Context and Network

Jürgen (54) is the Head of International Cooperation at Hamburg Fire Service Academy, which he joined after having worked in the department for disaster management at the city of Hamburg, where he was responsible for flood protection. After having read the introduction of the Baltic Leadership Programme, Jürgen was convinced immediately of the added value…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 22, 20140Comments

Children/Youth Flagship Projects

What is child protection about?

Comprehensive and sustainable child protection is a series of activities and actions lead by the Children’s Unit at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat. Focus areas include: promoting child rights including child-friendly justice; early intervention and prevention; protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation; protecting migrant children and child…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 16, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects Law enforcement

What is TRACE?

TRACE (Trafficking as a Criminal Enterprise) was a project terminated in October 2015 that aimed to support stakeholders in combating trafficking in human beings by assessing and consolidating information surrounding the perpetrators and the wider trafficking enterprise in order to make policy recommendations for disrupting this activity. TRACE adopted a multi-disciplinary approach: legal, criminological, socio-economical,…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 16, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects Law enforcement

What is Turnstone?

Turnstone, a project carried out with the support of PSF, aims to enhance law enforcement authorities cooperation between border agencies (Police, Border Police, Border Guard and Coast Guard organisations in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, and Poland) in the northern BSR corresponding to the need for border agencies to initiate compensatory measures and new models…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 16, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects

Why HAZARD?

HAZARD is a project that brings together rescue agencies, relevant authorities, logistics operators, and established knowledge partners on key safety and security issues from seven BSR countries. The project aims to contribute to a better use of risk analysis and assessment by responsible actors and will improve the communication and operational capability in emergencies between…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 16, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects

What is STROM?

STROM (Strengthening the Role of Municipalities) was a transnational project running in 2014-2015 that aimed to strengthen the capacity and role of municipalities in the chain of assistance to victims of human trafficking in the Baltic Sea Region. The participating countries were Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Read more on…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 16, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects

What is Citizens for Safety?

Citizens for Safety is a working title for a flagship project, defined in the Action Plan as follows: Effective learning and exchanging best practices on urban safety through a local city network. The network fosters urban safety exchanges throughout Baltic Sea region on locally-developed know-how strategies, shares experiences, analyses functions and activities of municipalities and…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments

Flagship Projects

Project Idea Formulated

One step further– in September 2013 the project partnership, that now consists of Gdansk Municipal Guard, Riga Municipality Police, Vilnius City Municipality, Tallinn Municipality Police, and Liepaja Municipality Police, formulated a project idea and applied for funding from the EUSBSR Seed Money Facility. The flagship project idea has been developed to identify safety and security…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 23, 20130Comments