VOICES FROM THE BALTIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME – Mariia Karagacheva

"New contacts, new experience, new thinking " about the course? It is a very interesting course, with great speakers. But it is even more interesting to have conversations during the breaks, when people talk about their real challenges and successes at work, their concrete experiences that I can identify with. I can get a lot from these…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

Voices from the Baltic Leadership Programme – Adrian Bucalowski

"The strength of the BSR region is very visible. " about the course? It is good that the course combines both academic and practical perspectives and that we are touching on social media, on building the culture of safety in an organisation and an atmosphere for making improvements. Now I will think of my work…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices of the Baltic Leadership Programme – Jürgen Krempin

"Now I have new partners that I will be able to contact directly " about the course? I know 8 or 9 people here already from the activities we have had before. However, it is always good to meet regularly and to strengthen our network. Here we can all bring our assets, our impacts – how we are dealing…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20150Comments

PA Secure

4th PA Secure Steering Group Meeting

The PA Secure steering group, now including representatives of former PA crime, gathered again in Stockholm on 3rd December 2015 in Stockholm. After presentations of the activities of the group, on strategic as well as project level, the participants shared their ideas on cooperation between law enforcement and civil security - a new focus since…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 8, 20150Comments

Capacity building Flagship Projects

Baltic Leadership Programme for Future Decision Makers 2015 in Warsaw

From 23-26 November 2015, the second Baltic Leadership Programme for Future Decision makers took place in Warsaw, with around 30 Civil Protection professionals from the 11 CBSS member states. After a great kick-off with Helena Lindberg, Director General of the Swedish Contingencies Agency, Ambassador Michal Czyz, representing the Polish Presidency, Åsa Lundmark from the Swedish…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 1, 20150Comments

Flagship Projects

From Gaps to Caps Seminar Number 2 in Tallinn

For the second Seminar of Task C & D, the partners of the flagship project From Gaps to Caps gathered in Tallinn. Since their last meeting in May, the task leaders had collected information on the respective methods of capability assessment in the different countries, as well as evaluations of exercises and emergencies. With these…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 25, 20150Comments

Flagship Projects

Final Conference of BaltPrevResilience in Warsaw

“In many countries the civil protection agencies are very efficient in both response time and prevention and yet still certain accidents don’t seem to decrease. We need to move beyond traditional approaches and have a more holistic perspective to resilience” Professor Jerzy Wolanin, Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw The final conference of BaltPrevResilience, a…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 19, 20150Comments

Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Launch of From Gaps to Caps Website

We are proud to announce that the flagship From Gaps to Caps has launched its own website. The page gives an overview of the people and organisations involved, shows the project timeline and serves as a platform for updates and publications. Over the last year, the Communications team of the CBSS, who is leading task B…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 16, 20150Comments

PA Secure

EUSBSR Priority Areas Secure & Crime merging to Policy Area Secure

Under the new structure of the EUSBSR Action Plan, which was adopted 16 June 2015, the now called Policy Area Secure includes additional elements of former Priority Area Crime, supporting more than ten flagships. The merge of the two priority areas now allows the Policy Area Secure to act in the societal security paradigm that…

Byadmin_bsrJuly 1, 20150Comments

Civil Protection

Directors General Meeting in Tallinn

The annual Directors General Meeting took place for the 13th time in Tallinn on 3 June 2015 and was opened by Mister Hanno Pevkur, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia. The traditon of this gathering of international Directors General of Civil Protection institutions started in 2002 - also in Tallinn. This year, the focus lay on fire safety…

Byadmin_bsrJune 5, 20150Comments