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, 2025

PA Secure

17th PA Secure Steering Group meeting

On 1 June 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met physically for the first time since 2019. The meeting, hosted by the Norwegian DSB in Oslo included participants from eight Member States in the region. The members expressed the need to go deeper into certain civil security issues in the next Steering Group meetings in order to maximise the…

June 10, 2022

Volunteerism

Volunteer fire brigades from Poland, Germany, Lithuania and Belarus exchanged experiences

On January 25-26, 2021, a study visit at the Volunteer Fire Brigades (VFB) in Poland was organised within the CBSS PSF funded project "Development of volunteer fire brigade system activation." Due to the current epidemiological situation, the meeting was held in the form of webinars. The webinars were attended by the representatives of the Volunteer…

January 29, 2021

Volunteerism

New project: ReSit – Situational Picture of Volunteerism for Societal Resilience in the Baltic Sea Region

To ensure that society is as resilient as possible in natural and man-made disasters, authorities cannot function on their own. Active civil society organizations (CSOs) and skilled volunteers are needed to support authorities in their actions as volunteers play a significant and a vital role in helping to ensure their local communities are safe and…

December 18, 2019