Fire and Rescue Innovation Network grows. FIRE-IN in Barcelona

Catalan Fire and Rescue Service hosted the second Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project in Barcelona on 15 May 2019. FIRE-IN (Fire and Rescue Innovation Network) is a five-year Horizon 2020 project, which started in 2017 with an aim to identify practitioners’ current needs and connect them with relevant innovative solutions, research and standardisation…

Byadmin_bsrMay 17, 20190Comments

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PA Secure visit to Denmark: rescue volunteers, youth and veterans

On 28 of March 2019, PA Secure's Andriy Martynenko, Adviser at the CBSS Secretariat, was invited to present PA Secure, FIRE-IN project and the CBSS civil security activities at the symposium in the city of Sønderborg (Denmark). The symposium was organised by the Nordic Dialogue and gathered more than 50 participants from Danish fire and…

Byadmin_bsrMarch 29, 20190Comments

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Which fire prevention activity works? The EVAPREM project reveals the truth

Over the last two years, national rescue boards of five countries from Baltic and Nordic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Frederiksborg from Denmark and South-West Finland - have been involved in an EU financed project with an aim to develop a universal and comprehensive model for evaluating the results of prevention measures. The research was…

Byadmin_bsrDecember 13, 20180Comments

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Baltic Leadership Programme in Civil Security Alumni conference in Riga

The Latvian Chairmanship of the CBSS Civil Protection Network – the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia, in cooperation with the CBSS Secretariat, the Swedish Institute, EUSBSR Policy Area Secure and Riga Stradiņš University, hosted the Baltic Leadership Program (BLP) in Civil Protection Alumni outreach event and conference “Societal security in the Baltic Sea…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 27, 20180Comments

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Interreg BSR clusters projects to maximise the results

The Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme invited the leaders and core partners of the first call for the project platforms as well as the coordinators of the EUSBSR to a kick-off meeting on 17 October 2018 in Riga. The project platforms gather projects with similar objectives, or complementary aims, in the…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 18, 20180Comments

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Flagship FIRE-IN: first year results at Annual Dissemination Workshop

80 participants from all fields related to Fire & Rescue in Europe: researchers, experts, national rescue services, civil protection agencies, NGOs, innovation and industry from 15 countries gathered for the first Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project on 26 June 2018. The workshop was hosted by the National Fire Corps (Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili…

Byadmin_bsrJune 29, 20180Comments

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CASCADE information brochure

An outcome of the final workshop in the CRCC project, on 19 March 2018 in Stockholm, is the brand-new information brochure on the CASCADE concept and partnership! The CRCC (Making Communities Resilient to Climate Change: Cross-Sectorial Cooperation in Capacity-building) project received funding from the Swedish Institute’s Seed Funding Facility and served as a platform for developing…

Byadmin_bsrMarch 20, 20180Comments

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Linking CCA and DRR – top priority for EU

During the European Civil Protection Forum 2018, in Brussels, Belgium, on 5-6 March, one of the most highlighted issues was the importance of cross-sectoral cooperation in meeting the current and future challenges in disaster risk management. On the second day of the forum, a panel discussion specifically targeted this issue: Bridging climate change adaptation and…

Byadmin_bsrMarch 5, 20180Comments

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Baltic Leadership Programme: Improving management skills and strategic thinking to build our region’s resilience

On 27-30 November 2017, representatives of all eleven CBSS member states, gathered in Sigtuna (Sweden), to take part in the Baltic Leadership Programme in Civil Security. All 25 participants of the Programme have been nominated by their respective civil protection and law enforcement organisations, because of their leadership potential. This year, the course has been focused…

Byadmin_bsrNovember 30, 20170Comments

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Three news Flagships under PA Secure

The decision to grant three new initiatives Flagship status in the Policy Area Secure was made during the first National Coordinators’ meeting under the Estonian Chairmanship, on 26 September in Tallinn, Estonia. The decision acknowledges the PA Secure’s significant contribution to the work of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: during its existence,…

Byadmin_bsrOctober 6, 20170Comments