Interreg BSR clusters projects to maximise the results

The Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme invited the leaders and core partners of the first call for the project platforms as well as the coordinators of the EUSBSR to a kick-off meeting on 17 October 2018 in Riga. The project platforms gather projects with similar objectives, or complementary aims, in the…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 18, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

2nd Baltic Border Committee under Swedish Chairmanship in BSRBCC

The second Baltic Border Committee under the Swedish Chairmanship in the Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC), gathered in Malmö, Sweden on 9-11 October 2018, to discuss current issues of cooperation in protecting external borders. The newly launched www.bsrbcc.org website was presented to the participants as well as the Action Plan for the upcoming Danish…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 12, 20180Comments

CBRN

EU project educates 30 CBRN security managers, publishes a CBRN handbook

46 days/419 hours of special training, the combination of practice and theory with emphasis on practical field exercises has delivered 30 new CBRN Security Managers to Europe! This is the result of the SE-CBRN-URE project funded by the Internal Security Fund (EC DG HOME). "We have educated a group of highly specialised CBRN Security Managers,"…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 12, 20180Comments

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…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 10, 20180Comments

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…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 4, 20180Comments

Sendai Framework

CBSS at UNISDR Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework

The CBSS Secretariat’s Senior Advisor for Civil Security, Janusz Gąciarz took part in the Advisory Meeting on the Regional Monitoring of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, organized by UNISDR in Bonn on 25-26 September 2018. The meeting gathered regional intergovernmental organisations from all continents to discuss the use of the Sendai…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 27, 20180Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Newsletter 2018/3

The PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat presents the third issue of the Newsletter in 2018. We would like to share some news with you on important developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS Secretariat and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 26, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

Baltic Sea Task Force on Organised Crime (BSTF) meeting in Jūrmala

On 18-19 September 2018, representatives from Police, Customs and Border guards from all the CBSS Member States gathered in Jūrmala, Latvia for their last Operational Planning and Coordination Meeting, before the handover to the German Chairmanship with operational support from Poland. The participants discussed irregular migration, lessons learned from the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, illicit…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 20, 20180Comments

PA Secure

Urban resilience in the Baltic Sea Region

On 6 September 2018, PA Secure was invited to participate in two VASAB workshops organised by the Latvian presidency – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in Liepaja, Latvia. The first workshop led by ESPON gathered information from the BSR stakeholders on what indicators are important for monitoring national and macro-regional development trends…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 7, 20180Comments

CBRN

Civil Security team meets Swedish CBRNE actors

The CBRNE stakeholders meeting is organised by MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) twice a year for all actors in Sweden, dealing with CBRNE (hazardous materials) issues. This was the second appearance of the CBSS Secretariat’s Civil Security team at the meeting. In August 2018, Project Officer Nina Jernberg presented EUSBSR PA Secure work and the…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 6, 20180Comments