At the Kiel Munition Clearance Week 2025 (17–20 June, Kiel, Germany), CBSS Adviser and PA Secure coordinator Andriy Martynenko moderated the Scientific Plenary Session on submerged munitions. The week brought together science, industry and public authorities to discuss how to deal with the vast legacy of munitions on the seabed at a time when offshore…
Baltic Sea Region Network of Volunteer Organisations and Authorities (BSR-NOVA) was officially launched on 5 September 2024.
The Network is established based on the groundwork laid by the subgroup of volunteers and local actors (2020-2024). This subgroup was initiated by Finland under the EUSBSR Policy Area Secure and CBSS Civil Protection Network.
BSR-NOVA, chaired by…
Valdur Lahtvee and Katie Goldie-Ryder, both working at the CBSS Secretariat in Stockholm, reflect on the synergies between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and on their tasks in the CASCADE project:
VL: CBSS is the sole coordinator of the Horizontal Action Climate of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) and at the same time…
The annual Directors General Meeting took place for the 13th time in Tallinn on 3 June 2015 and was opened by Mister Hanno Pevkur, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia. The traditon of this gathering of international Directors General of Civil Protection institutions started in 2002 - also in Tallinn.
This year, the focus lay on fire safety…
