CBSS kicks off new project to institutionalise societal security education

The project kick-off for Needs-based Education and Studies in Societal Security (NEEDS) was held online on 22 nd and 24 th September 2020. Janusz Gąciarz , Senior Adviser for Civil Security at CBSS welcomed the meeting participants and explained the historical development as well as the rationale of the NEEDS project. The…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 28, 20200Comments

Children/Youth

New CBSS-led project explores the role of children and youth in BSR resilience

The ChYResilience Project – Th e role of children and youth in building a resilient society , started 1 September 2020. ChYResilience 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. The…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 3, 20200Comments

Civil Protection

DGs for Civil Protection in the BSR gather online for their 18th meeting

On 8 June 2020, the Danish chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network hosted the 18th Meeting of the Directors General for Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region. This meeting concluded the yearlong Danish chairmanship, which was dedicated to climate change, resilience as well as to cooperation with civil society. Due to the COVID-19…

Byadmin_bsrJune 22, 20200Comments

Children/Youth

PA Secure at the second Baltic Sea Youth Camp

The second Baltic Sea Youth Camp (BSYC) was organised online on 12-13 June 2020. This virtual camp was held within the Baltic Sea Youth Platform , a platform for young people, initiated by young visionaries in the Baltic Sea Region. The BSYC gather ed young people from the Baltic Sea…

Byadmin_bsrJune 16, 20200Comments

Civil Protection

Baltic-Nordic Preparatory Teleconference Ahead of the Wildfire Season

Еhe forest fire season is already here, there are several reported grass and wildfires across northern Europe. Forecasts indicate challenging conditions and the ongoing Covid-19 crises puts further pressure on our respective response systems. On April 21, 2020, Sweden (through MSB) organized the second Baltic-Nordic annual meeting to inform each other on the preparedness for…

Byadmin_bsrApril 21, 20200Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Monitoring and Evaluation report complete

The Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat commissioned a report “ An Evaluation of the Development and Effectiveness of Policy Area Secure 2013-2019 ” in order to assess the overall achievements throughout the entire PA Secure 2013 - 2020 period, and to work out the premise for formulating recommendations for the operation of…

Byadmin_bsrApril 17, 20200Comments

PA Secure

13th meeting of the PA Secure Steering Group

On 2 April 2020 via videoconference the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met for the 1 3 th time . Despite these chaotic and unpredictable times, the meeting included representatives from eight Member States form the region, as well as the Union of the Baltic Cities (Safe Cities Commission) . This was the…

Byadmin_bsrApril 7, 20200Comments

Flagship Projects Volunteerism

New Flagship Baltprep improves Red Cross interoperability across BSR

On February 5th 2020, during their meeting in Riga, the EUSBSR National Coordinators decided to grant the status of EUSBSR Flagship under PA Secure to Baltprep project. Funded by the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, the project gathers Red Cross National Societies from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Denmark to strengthen collaboration and…

Byadmin_bsrMarch 3, 20200Comments

Flagship Projects Sendai Framework

CASCADE Prepares Curriculum for Trainers – for urban resilience

On 4 – 5 February, the CASCADE project partners gathered for a workshop in Copenhagen. The purpose was to review the components of a curricula for training in the climate change risk assessment methodology for the local level developed by the project. The training is tailored specifically for the local level context in the Baltic…

Byadmin_bsrFebruary 6, 20200Comments

Law enforcement

Moving towards a Harmonized Operational Framework against human trafficking in the BSR

In September 2018, the Council of the Baltic Sea States Task Force against Trafficking in Human beings (CBSS TF-THB) initiated the project Paving the Way for the Harmonized Operational Framework in the Baltic Sea Region (HOF-BSR). It has since been operating to achieve the ambitious goal of developing the Baltic Sea Region as a model…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 18, 20190Comments