The Civil Protection Faculty, a pioneering project led by the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), was launched in Helsinki on 24 November 2023, aiming to channel Baltic Sea Region (BSR) expertise on civil protection into Ukrainian education. This project originated from the EUSBSR conference on cooperation with Ukraine in December 2022. As…
The CBSS-coordinated Secure Kids project has produced the mapping report titled "Existing mechanisms and processes for child and youth participation in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden". The purpose of the mapping was to offer an up-todate overview of mechanisms and practices that exist in the Baltic Sea Region to…
PA Secure at EU Week of Regions CBSS Adviser Andriy Martynenko spoke on behalf PA Secure about BSR cooperation in civil security at the workshop ‘Building resilience across borders: Strengthening regional disaster risk and crisis management’ during 2023 European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels. The workshop, moderated by the Commission discussed how border regions in the…
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 Area. The joint position encourages all expert networks, working in the field of civil protection ( such as the CBSS Civil Protection Network, the EUSBSR Policy Area Secure and all other relevant networks) to increase cooperation within the following priority areas:
Building a common societal security culture.
Combining national efforts in implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Strengthening cross-sectorial cooperation in CBRN(E) preparedness
Increasing involvement of the local authorities and civil society organizations
Seeking more funds for macro-regional civil security cooperation from a broad range of EU programmes.
Initiating projects as platforms for innovation and cooperation.
Making better exploitation and coordination of research and project results.
Developing demand-driven and well-tailored training and education.