STEERING GROUP GATHERED FOR ITS 15TH MEETING

On 4th May 2021, the Steering Group of PA Secure gathered for its 15th meeting, which, due to the pandemic, was held online. Participants from 9 Baltic Sea Region countries were present at the meeting. The representative from the European Commission, Mr. Petri Koistinen (DG Regio) addressed the meeting with a presentation about the status of the…

Byadmin_bsrMay 5, 20210Comments

Children/Youth Research

New report in the NEEDS project: Societal Security as Higher Education in the Baltic Sea Region

The ‘Needs-based education and studies in Societal Security’ (NEEDS) project addresses the skills gap and mismatch between higher education and the knowledge needs in this field, as well as the fact that there is a lack of structured transnational cooperation and dialogue between higher education institutions, practitioners, and experts in tackling these issues. This report…

Byadmin_bsrFebruary 26, 20210Comments

PA Secure

PA SECURE STEERING GROUP MEETS FOR INTERACTIVE SESSION

On 3 February 2021 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met in an interactive session , held online . The meeting included participants from seven Member States in the region , in addition to the CBSS Secretariat who chaired the meeting. The aim of the session was to facilitate the everyday work within international cooperation…

Byadmin_bsrFebruary 10, 20210Comments

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…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 29, 20210Comments

Children/Youth

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…

Byadmin_bsrJanuary 15, 20210Comments

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…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 5, 20200Comments

Capacity building Civil Protection

Lithuanian Seminar “Baltic Sea Region: acting together against nuclear risk”

On 26th November, the Lithuanian Chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network hosted the Baltic Excellence Programme (BEP) Seminar “Baltic Sea Region: acting together against nuclear risk”. The seminar focused on Information Management, Decision making and protective measures, and Recommendations to the public. The Lithuanian Chairmanship prioritises the question of nuclear risk and disaster prevention, since…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 26, 20200Comments

Research

NEEDS project information lealfet

Please click here to read about the NEEDS project

Byadmin_bsrNovember 20, 20200Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Steering Group 14th meeting

On 5 November 2020 , the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met for the 14 th tim e , in an online format. Despite not being able to meet in person, the meeting included 20 participants, from eight of the Member States in the region and the Union of the Baltic Cities…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 7, 20200Comments

Flagship Projects Sendai Framework

PA Secure and HA Climate colleagues interview on CASCADE project for #DRRDay

Valdur Lahtvee and Katie Goldie-Ryder, both working at the CBSS Secretariat in Stockholm, reflect on the synergies between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and on their tasks in the CASCADE project: VL: CBSS is the sole coordinator of the Horizontal Action Climate of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) and at the same time…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 13, 20200Comments