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

Volunteerism

New project: ReSit – Situational Picture of Volunteerism for Societal Resilience in the Baltic Sea Region

To ensure that society is as resilient as possible in natural and man-made disasters, authorities cannot function on their own. Active civil society organizations (CSOs) and skilled volunteers are needed to support authorities in their actions as volunteers play a significant and a vital role in helping to ensure their local communities are safe and…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 18, 20190Comments

Research

Developing closer cooperation between higher education institutions and end-users in the field of societal security in the BSR

The CBSS vision for improvements in connecting research and practitioners - the Research Roadmap for Societal Security - was presented during the 17th Meeting of Directors General for Civil Protection in the BSR, in May 2019. It received the Directors’ support to move forward with concrete initiatives in this area. One response to this is…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 17, 20190Comments

Law enforcement

BSRBCC Presidency goes to Germany

On 3 – 5 December, the Danish National Police hosted the Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC) Heads Conference in Snekkersten, Denmark. The meeting concluded the Danish Presidency and marked the hand-over of the Presidency to Germany for 2020. The meeting reviewed the activities from the past year. Several joint operations took place…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 6, 20190Comments

PA Secure

12th PA Secure Steering Group Meeting

On 26-27 November 2019, the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met for the 12th time. The meeting took place in Stockholm at the CBSS Secretariat’s premises. Representatives from the seven EU Member States form the region, Swedish Police and the Union of the Baltic Cities (Safe Cities Commission) took part in the meeting. Traditionally, the…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 29, 20190Comments

Capacity building Flagship Projects

Baltic Excellence Programme in Denmark: climate change and volunteerism in focus

During 2019-2020, the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) acts as the chair of the CBSS Civil Protection Network . The Danish chairmanship priorities for this period include climate change and volunteerism. With these priorities in mind, DEMA hosted a module of the Baltic Excellence Programme (BEP) in Civil Security at its training facility in…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 22, 20190Comments