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How ready are we? EVAPREM project meets in Riga to discuss effectiveness of prevention activities.

Erasmus of Rotterdam’s famous words, that “prevention is better than cure” resonate the most with the world of Fire and Rescue. It has been proven time and again that prevention can save lives and money: fire alarms in homes is one of the obvious examples of preventive measures that work well. However, considering limited resources…

August 21, 2017

PA Secure

PA SECURE NEWSLETTER 2017/2

Dear Friends, PA Secure team at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States presents the second issue of the Newsletter in 2017. We would like to share with you some news on key developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter…

August 21, 2017

Law enforcement

German-Estonian border control cooperation: an internship story

At the beginning of last June, two German Federal police officers Jasmin Bezler and Sergei Bachmann had a chance to test their knowledge and know-how about border control at the external border of the European Union. Jasmin was sent to South Prefecture and Sergei to East Prefecture for an internship. Just to give the idea…

July 20, 2017

PA Secure

PA Secure Steering Group meeting – better cooperation, more Flagships, new members

15-16 June 2017, the 7th Meeting of the PA Secure Steering Group, was held in Hamburg, Germany. During the meeting the state of play in the field of civil protection in the Baltic Sea Region was reviewed, as well as the status of projects and processes. Mr. Alexander Somoza, the representative of the European Commission’s…

June 17, 2017

Civil Protection Flagship Projects Research

CBSS helps bringing state-of-the-art Fire and Rescue Technologies to the Region

CBSS Secretariat's Civil Protection team participated in a kick-off meeting of the new project, FIRE-IN, set to improve national and European fire and rescue capability development. FIRE-IN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme and consists of 16 partners from 8 European countries, representing research, practitioners, governmental agencies and business. Within…

May 24, 2017

Civil Protection

Directors General for Civil Protection adopt Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in BSR

The Directors General for the Civil Protection in the Baltic Sea Region held their 15th meeting, which took place in Iceland on 11 May 2017. The meeting, chaired by Hjálmar Björgvinsson, Superintendent at the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, resulted in an adoption of a historic Joint Position on Enhancing Cooperation in Civil Protection…

May 11, 2017

Sendai Framework

Seminar on implementing Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN Sendai Framework

20 April 2017, PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat attended a seminar on implementing the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), which today is on top of the international agenda related to managing future risks. The seminar was hosted by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs…

April 20, 2017

PA Secure

EUSBSR Spotlight blog about PA Secure

Communication team of the EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region website started a series of blog posts, called Spotlight, introducing the concrete work done by different Horizontal Actions and Policy Areas of the EUSBSR. The latest blog post was dedicated to Policy Area Secure, describing who we are, what we do and our future plans: http://www.balticsea-region-strategy.eu/highlights/item/12-policy-area-secure-civil-protection-law-enforcement-safer-baltic-sea-region

April 11, 2017

PA Secure

PA Secure Newsletter 2017/1

Dear Friends, PA Secure team at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States presents the first issue of the Newsletter in 2017. We would like to share with you some news on key developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter will also…

March 30, 2017

Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Gaps to Caps final report

The project started off with the question “Do we have the capability/capabilities needed to deal with the risks we are currently facing?.” Final report on national capability assessments and risk assessments is published together with a survey among all project partners. This report gives an overview of relevant aspects of the civil protection systems involved, differences and…

February 23, 2017