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From Gaps to Caps: third project seminar in Hamburg

The partners of the flagship project From Gaps to Caps: Risk Management Capacity Based on Gaps Identification in the BSR, had its third project seminar in Hamburg with a presentation on MSB guidance on scenario analysis and a workshop understanding how emergency response capability can be assessed in the Baltic Sea Region in June 2016.

The agenda  of the third Gaps to Caps project seminar can be downloaded here.

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