Final Secure Kids Conference in Riga: Child Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction

28-29 January 2025, Riga & online The Secure Kids conference brought together over 80 experts, policymakers, practitioners, and children and youth from across the Baltic Sea region to discuss child participation in diastaser risk reduction. The first day focused on the following themes: 🔹 What is child participation? 🔹 Why is it essential to…

January 30, 2025

Secure Kids: mechanism for child participation in disaster risk reduction activities

This mechanism has been developed within the Secure Kids project. A family brought their children to help with carrying sand bags in the flood? Local youth fire brigade would be a great help in spreading fire safety messages during dry summer? How to involve them in the most effective and safe way? If you are…

October 18, 2024

Children/Youth Sendai Framework

Secure Kids Releases Overview on Youth Involvement in Disaster Risk Reduction in the BSR

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…

November 19, 2023

Capacity building Civil Protection Research

NEEDS project concludes with innovative societal security course

The NEEDS project consortium has successfully wrapped up its three-year collaboration and project work on 31 August 2023, ending with the launch of an innovative online course on societal security and an online community dedicated to institutionalising societal security education. The aim of the NEEDS project was to bolster the quality, scope, and attractiveness of…

August 31, 2023

Capacity building Volunteerism

BALTinnoSEC Pilot Forum in Warsaw

The pilot BALTinnoSEC Forum was organised in Warsaw on 27 January 2023 at the Main School of Fire Service. The forum gathered 75 participants from all BSR countries with the majority of participants coming from Poland. Three panels were organised: on influx of migrants, CBRN and natural disasters with focus on crisis and risk communication. The…

January 30, 2023

Capacity building Civil Protection Research

Project kick-off: BALTinnoSEC

There are numerous civil security themed forums and platforms in Europe, focusing on either specific aspects or a wide scope of civil security topics in Europe. But where to turn to in case of security threats in the Baltic Sea Region? Whom to face security challenges with? Challenges that each state cannot face alone: floods,…

February 25, 2022

Children/Youth

ChYResilience – How do our partners work with youth participation and resilience building?

The ChYResilience project aims to empower children and youth to play an active role as contributors to societal resilience and to remove barriers to their active involvement in prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. This means that children and youth should be enabled and be provided with the space needed to play this role. The project focuses…

January 15, 2021

Children/Youth

CBSS kicks off new project to engage youth and children in societal resilience

On 30th November 2020, the ChYResilience project held the Kick-off meeting online. The aim of the project is to map youth participation in resilience building in the Baltic Sea Region. Through the project three focus group discussions will be organised with children and youth, in Warsaw, Riga, and Tallinn. The focus groups will be organised…

December 5, 2020

Research

NEEDS project information lealfet

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November 20, 2020

Children/Youth

New CBSS-led project explores the role of children and youth in BSR resilience

The ChYResilience Project – Th e role of children and youth in building a resilient society , started 1 September 2020. ChYResilience aims to empower children and youth to play an active role as contributors to societal resilience and to remove barriers to their active involvement in prevention, preparedness , response, and recovery. The…

September 3, 2020