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

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

Research

Call for action – pilot project for institutionalizing research end-user cooperation

Once again a new project? Yes, but you can join! This is a project to overcome the unnecessary gap between theoretical and practical knowledge and experience in the field of societal security! The 16-month pilot is funded by the CBSS Project Support Facility. Project organizing team: Swedish Defence University UiT The Arctic Universityof Norway University…

September 3, 2019

Research

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…

January 26, 2019

CBRN

STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting – preparing for a bigger CBRNE forum

STAC-CBRNE Reference Group meeting on 8-9 October 2018 in Riga was the third meeting in the project Strengthening the Transnational Capacity of the Management of CBRNE Agents related Emergencies, funded by the Swedish Institute. During the first two workshops, the partners identified common gaps and capability challenges in crisis management of hazardous substances in the…

October 10, 2018

Research

BSR-RNSS project kick-off: linking research results and end-users

Currently, in the field of civil security in the Baltic Sea Region, there is no common or standard mechanism to ensure the use of results from research to the fullest. This means that much of the output from extensive research projects is not reaching practitioners and is not contributing to saving human lives and valuable property. The…

October 4, 2018

Research

New project will bring research results to practitioners

Currently, in the field of civil security in the Baltic Sea Region, there is no common or standard mechanism for utilizing the results from research. This means that much of the output from extensive research projects is not reaching practitioners and is not contributing to saving human lives and valuable property. The new project Baltic Sea Region…

July 21, 2018

Law enforcement

PA Secure is a partner in a new law enforcement cooperation project

The Swedish Police received funding from the Swedish Institute for an initiative focusing on strengthening the cooperation between law enforcement agencies in the region. CBSS Secretariat in its capacity of the EUSBSR PA Secure co-coordinator joined this initiative as a partner. The project, named Goldfinger, will help to develop joint operational capacities for law enforcement agencies in…

July 1, 2018

CBRN

STAC-CBRNE participants working towards a large CBRNE stakeholder networking forum in the BSR

The second workshop of the STAC-CBRNE project (Strengthening the Transnational Capacity of the Management of CBRNE agents related Emergencies, funded by the Swedish Institute) took place in Helsinki on 19-20 April 2018, with 24 participants, from six countries in the Baltic Sea Region (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden). The workshop was organised by…

April 27, 2018