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First Baltic Border Committee under Danish Presidency in BSRBCC
5-7 March 2019, Helsingør, Denmark. The first Baltic Border Committee (BBC) meeting under the Danish Presidency in the Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC) gathered representatives from the police, border and coast guard as well as customs authorities from Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, as well as from the…
March 8, 2019
Civil Protection
Civil Protection Network Senior Experts met in Riga
On February 21-22, 2019 the Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia, current chair of the CBSS Civil Protection Network, hosted a meeting of the CPN Senior Experts in Riga. 18 experts representing 9 countries in the Baltic Sea Region and the CBSS Secretariat delegation spent two days discussing challenges and successes in the implementation of…
February 22, 2019
Sendai Framework
CASCADE kick-off – new project will improve BSR urban resilience
Because of climate change, the risk of unpredictable weather events such as droughts, floods, forest fires and extreme temperatures increased. To make the Baltic Sea Region more resilient, CASCADE project (which received funding from the EU Civil Protection Mechanism) brings together civil protection specialists and climate change adaptation experts to identify and measure such risks…
February 8, 2019
Research
BSR-RNSS 2nd meeting – bringing science closer to practitioners
Following the kick-off meeting in Stockholm, Baltic Sea Region Research Network on Societal Security (BSR-RNSS) met for the second time in Helsinki on 22-23 January 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Laurea University and gathered 25 participants from the partners’ organisations. This time, Lund University (Sweden), Saint-Petersburg University of State Fire Service of Emercom…
January 26, 2019
CBRN
Application submitted for TREFF BSR-CBRNE – FIRST CROSS-SECTORIAL FORUM FOR CBRNE EXPERTS IN BSR
In the project STAC-CBRNE (Strengthening the Transnational Capacity of the Management of CBRNE Agents related Emergencies), funded by the Swedish Institute, the partners identified common gaps and capability challenges in crisis management of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea Region  and developed  a concept of “Treff” –  a large Baltic Sea Region CBRNE networking forum. The…
January 16, 2019
Research
Opinion. Societal security scholar: coordination is no longer enough for societal security in the Baltic region!
During the Baltic Leadership Programme Alumni conference in Riga in November 2018, PA Secure sat down with Dr Magnus Ekengren, Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University and visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium to talk about societal security in the Baltic Sea region. During the interview, he answered questions about present and future…
November 30, 2018
PA Secure
10th Policy Area Secure (EUSBSR) Steering Group Meeting
28 November 2018, Riga. The PA Secure Steering Group meets biannually to receive updates and make important strategic decisions for the work in this policy area. This meeting, organised in connection with the Baltic Leadership Program (BLP) in Civil Protection Alumni outreach event and conference: ‘Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region – Challenges and…
November 28, 2018