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Volunteers & authorities: CREWS meets BSR NOVA network
A recent CREWS workshop at the BSR-NOVA meeting examined how authorities and civil society can work together more effectively to strengthen societal resilience across the Baltic Sea Region. On 10 November 2025, a CREWS workshop held during the meeting of the Baltic Sea Region Network of Volunteer Organisations and Authorities (BSR-NOVA) focused on how authorities…
November 12, 20250Comments16Views
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PA Secure at EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot: BSR Capitals Connecting on preparedness and resilience
On 29 October 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, PA Secure organised the session “Connected Capitals: Local Action, Regional Resilience”. Building on earlier cooperation among Nordic capitals, the session brought together city practitioners from Helsinki, Tallinn and Warsaw, backed up by fresh comparative research on urban preparedness from the University of Latvia. Moderated by Andriy Martynenko…
November 3, 20250Comments71Views
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The Soft Core of Hard Security: PA Culture and PA Secure Joint Session at the EUSBSR Annual Forum
On October 30, 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, Poland, the Policy Areas Culture and Secure hosted the session “Soft Core of Hard Security: Community Cohesion and Agency in Times of Insecurity”. The session particularly explored how social trust, community cohesion and civic engagement form the foundation of resilient societies. By highlighting initiatives…
November 1, 20250Comments51Views
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Flagship Projects

CREWS Project Launches to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness Through Community Engagement

The CREWS project—Enhancing Capacities in Disaster Risk Reduction by Facilitating Public-Civil… Read More

Experts Gather in Tallinn to Strengthen Crisis Communication

On November 12th 2024, 30 crisis communication experts from Estonia, Latvia,… Read More

Secure Kids: mechanism for child participation in disaster risk reduction activities

This mechanism has been developed within the Secure Kids project. A… Read More

PA Secure and PA Education kicked-off a common project to assist Ukraine

The Civil Protection Faculty, a pioneering project led by the Council of… Read More

PA Secure and HA Climate colleagues interview on CASCADE project for #DRRDay

Valdur Lahtvee and Katie Goldie-Ryder, both working at the CBSS Secretariat… Read More

New Flagship Baltprep improves Red Cross interoperability across BSR

On February 5th 2020, during their meeting in Riga, the EUSBSR… Read More

CASCADE Prepares Curriculum for Trainers – for urban resilience

On 4 – 5 February, the CASCADE project partners gathered for… Read More

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

During 2019-2020, the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) acts as the… Read More

CASCADE discussed Climate Change Risks with municipalities

“The global temperature has increased, and we are witnessing extreme weather… Read More

Two new reports on how DRR works with CCA in the Baltic Sea Region – challenges, good practices, possibilities

On the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, 13 October 2019,… Read More