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BSR-RNSS 2nd meeting – bringing science closer to practitioners

Following the kick-off meeting in Stockholm, Baltic Sea Region Research Network on Societal Security (BSR-RNSS) met for the second time in Helsinki on 22-23 January 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Laurea University and gathered 25 participants from the partners’ organisations. This time, Lund University (Sweden), Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom…

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Opinion. Societal security scholar: coordination is no longer enough for societal security in the Baltic region!

During the Baltic Leadership Programme Alumni conference in Riga in November 2018, PA Secure sat down with Dr Magnus Ekengren, Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University and visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium to talk about societal security in the Baltic Sea region. During the interview, he answered questions about present and future…

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University of Tromsø Societal Security Workshop

On 15-16 November this annual conference gathered researchers and affiliated organizations to discuss current issues in societal security research. Three keynote speeches were provided by Professor Bengt Sundelius (Swedish Defence University), Professor Arjen Boin (Leiden University) and Professor Jonas Johansson (Lund University). Ongoing research projects with their tentative results were also presented as well as…

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How ready are we? EVAPREM project meets in Riga to discuss effectiveness of prevention activities.

Erasmus of Rotterdam’s famous words, that “prevention is better than cure”  resonate the most with the world of Fire and Rescue. It has been proven time and again that prevention can save lives and money:  fire alarms in homes is one of the obvious examples of preventive measures that work well. However, considering limited resources…

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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…

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