23rd PA Secure Steering Group Meeting in Tallinn: Shaping Priorities for a Safer Baltic Sea Region

On 8–9 April 2025, the 23rd PA Secure Steering Group Meeting took place in Tallinn, bringing together 20 experts from 9 countries. The meeting was chaired by the Estonian Rescue Board. Key topics included preparations for the upcoming DG meeting, welcoming the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) as a new…

April 10, 20252KViews

CREWS Project Launches to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness Through Community Engagement

The CREWS project—Enhancing Capacities in Disaster Risk Reduction by Facilitating Public-Civil Cooperation—has officially launched with a successful kick-off meeting in Hamburg-Altona on 27–28 March 2025. This new large project aims to strengthen disaster risk reduction in the region by promoting closer collaboration between formal authorities and civil society actors. Led by the District Office of…

April 1, 20251KViews

Fire Safety Working Group meets in Tallinn

Fire safety experts from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia gathered in Tallinn on March 26–27 for a seminar organised by the Estonian Rescue Board as part of the Fire Safety Working Group. Established under the Council of the Baltic Sea States CPN/PA Secure last year, this was the group’s first in-person meeting.…

March 28, 20251KViews

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New report in the NEEDS project: Societal Security as Higher Education in the Baltic Sea Region

The ‘Needs-based education and studies in Societal Security’ (NEEDS) project addresses the skills gap and mismatch between higher education and the knowledge needs in this field, as well as the fact that there is a lack of structured transnational cooperation and dialogue between higher education institutions, practitioners, and experts in tackling these issues.

This report “Societal Security as Higher Education: The State of the Art in the Baltic Sea Region” is authored by Christer Pursiainen and Dina Abdel-Fattah from UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

This is the first, in a series of, reports that examines existing study programmes in the field of Societal Security and an analysis of the concrete curricula used in the degree programmes in the field of Societal Security in the Baltic Sea region.

The project is co-funded by the EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership (project code 2020-1-SE01-KA203-078013) and runs from September 2020 through August 2023.