PA Secure already had an experience working together with colleagues from EUSDR, EUSAIR and EUSALP already in 2018 - when all four macro-regional strategies contributed to a session at the EU Civil Protection Forum in Brussels. The session was called Transnational cooperation for effective disaster risk management and focused mostly on environmental risks. In February…
The pilot BALTinnoSEC Forum was organised in Warsaw on 27 January 2023 at the Main School of Fire Service. The forum gathered 75 participants from all BSR countries with the majority of participants coming from Poland. Three panels were organised: on influx of migrants, CBRN and natural disasters with focus on crisis and risk communication. The…
On 18 January 2023 PA Secure held an interactive meeting, dedicated to Exchange of Experts Programme of EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Representative from the EOE team explained to the participants how the programme works now and participated in the discussion on how it can be adapted to the need of the Baltic Sea Region.…
Despite evidence of the benefits of involving children and youth in disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities, it is still difficult for many organisations and societies to fully accept that they can take responsibilities in DRR.
To address this challenge, in 2020 - 2022, the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) implemented a project “ChYResilience…
On 15-16 December 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met in Hamburg, hosted by the Hamburg Fire and Rescue Service. Except the usual exchange of latest activities, discussion on progress of Joint Position implementation, the participants from 9 countries received two in-depth briefings by experts: on dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea and on…
On 1 June 2022 the Policy Area Secure Steering Group met physically for the first time since 2019. The meeting, hosted by the Norwegian DSB in Oslo included participants from eight Member States in the region. The members expressed the need to go deeper into certain civil security issues in the next Steering Group meetings in order to maximise the…
The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), current chair of the CBSS Civil Protection Network, hosted a meeting for CPN Senior Experts on 5-6 April 2022 in Tønsberg, home to DSB headquarters.
14 participants from 7 countries attended the meeting, which was the first physical gathering of the network after the pause caused by the pandemic.…
On 1-3 March 2022, the Chairmanship of the EUSBSR PA Secure/CBSS Civil Protection Network hosted the 10th Baltic Excellence Programme in civil security in Oslo, Norway – the first physical module since 2019 BEP in Tinglev, Denmark. 37 participants from 12 countries came to Oslo, invited by the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB).…
There are numerous civil security themed forums and platforms in Europe, focusing on either specific aspects or a wide scope of civil security topics in Europe. But where to turn to in case of security threats in the Baltic Sea Region? Whom to face security challenges with? Challenges that each state cannot face alone: floods,…
