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24th PA Secure Steering Group Meeting in Kraków: advancing Host Nation Support and mass evacuation preparedness

On 9–10 December 2025, the PA Secure Steering Group gathered in Kraków for one of its largest meetings in years — with all nine PA Secure Member States present, and a special guest: the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management of Iceland: more than 40 participants took part in the two-days meeting. The…
December 13, 20250Comments

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Civil Protection PA Secure Volunteerism

PA Secure at EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot: BSR Capitals Connecting on preparedness and resilience  

On 29 October 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, PA Secure organised the session “Connected Capitals: Local Action, Regional Resilience”. Building on earlier cooperation among Nordic capitals, the session brought together city practitioners from Helsinki, Tallinn and Warsaw, backed up by fresh comparative research on urban preparedness from the University of Latvia. Moderated by Andriy Martynenko…
November 3, 20250Comments

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PA Secure

The Soft Core of Hard Security: PA Culture and PA Secure Joint Session at the EUSBSR Annual Forum

On October 30, 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, Poland, the Policy Areas Culture and Secure hosted the session “Soft Core of Hard Security: Community Cohesion and Agency in Times of Insecurity”. The session particularly explored how social trust, community cohesion and civic engagement form the foundation of resilient societies. By highlighting initiatives…
November 1, 20250Comments

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Research

New publication: Creeping Crises in the Baltic Sea Region: Challenges and Strategies

Professor Magnus Ekengren (Swedish Defence University) explains the creeping crisis concept – slow-building, foreshadowed threats that can erupt into acute shocks if left insufficiently addressed – and explains why attention so often lags behind growing risk. This article was prepared as part of the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2025 publication “Securing the Future – Views from…
October 25, 20250Comments

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PA Secure Research

Roundtable: Science – Policy – Practice for Societal Security 

In response to the 2025 Vihula Ministerial Declaration’s call to refocus the CBSS on today’s security environment, the CBSS Secretariat – together with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), its co-coordinator of EUSBSR Policy Area Secure (PA Secure) – hosted an informal roundtable on societal security at its premises in Stockholm on 20 October 2025.…
October 24, 20250Comments

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Civil Protection Volunteerism

RiA-ENGAGE kicks off: strengthening disaster preparedness with civil society in the Baltic Sea Region and Ukraine

On 14 October 2025, the new project RiA-ENGAGE (Resilience in Action – Advancing Disaster Preparedness through Civil Society Engagement) held its online kick-off meeting, bringing together partners from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and Ukraine. Led by the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the project aims to strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR) by…
October 15, 20250Comments

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Capacity building Children/Youth

Razom Summer University: students from BSR and Ukraine

The Razom Summer University programme focused on crisis management, resilience-building, and societal security, with particular attention to the links between the Baltic Sea Region and Ukraine in today’s security context.  Over the course of five days, participants joined in lectures, workshops, and practical group exercises. Experts from the Lviv State University of Life Safety (LSULS) conducted a hands-on session…
August 30, 20250Comments

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