On 12 September 2024, the Estonian Rescue Board launched a Fire Safety Working Group for the Baltic Sea Region.
The creation of the working group, initiated by Estonia, was approved by the CPN Senior Experts Group and the Policy Area Secure Steering Group of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). These two key cooperation frameworks…
The CBSS Civil Protection Network's 12th Baltic Excellence Programme (BEP) in Helsinki brought together 40 civil protection experts from 8 countries across the region to delve into topics of preparedness, civil protection, and comprehensive security.
Hosted by the Ministry of the Interior of Finland under the current Finnish presidency of the CBSS, the 12th Baltic Excellence Programme (BEP)…
Interview with Professor Bengt Sundelius, Strategic Adviser to the Director General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)
CBSS Civil Security team met with Professor Sundelius to discuss the need for international cooperation in the field of civil protection, the examples of such cooperation and the future challenges for the Baltic Sea Region.
Bengt Sundelius is Professor…
The annual Directors General Meeting took place for the 13th time in Tallinn on 3 June 2015 and was opened by Mister Hanno Pevkur, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia. The traditon of this gathering of international Directors General of Civil Protection institutions started in 2002 - also in Tallinn.
This year, the focus lay on fire safety…