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

During 2019-2020, the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) acts as the chair of the CBSS Civil Protection Network . The Danish chairmanship priorities for this period include climate change and volunteerism. With these priorities in mind, DEMA hosted a module of the Baltic Excellence Programme (BEP) in Civil Security at its training facility in…

November 22, 2019

Capacity building Flagship Projects

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…

November 30, 2017

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices of the Baltic Leadership progarmme – Camilla Sieljaks

"The region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations" about international cooperation? At DEMA we work on a policy level with the EU and NATO and Nordic cooperation and of course also the CBSS. But given that the region has so many issues in common, it is natural to form collaborations…

December 17, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices from the Baltic Leadership Programme – Heikki Laurikainen

"Projects come to an end, but the culture of cooperation remains. " about international cooperation? I would say it is very important to have. When you meet people from abroad, it is not necessarily that you come up with a detailed project that would work instantly and smoothly. But in the long run it’s important…

December 17, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

VOICES FROM THE BALTIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME – Mariia Karagacheva

"New contacts, new experience, new thinking " about the course? It is a very interesting course, with great speakers. But it is even more interesting to have conversations during the breaks, when people talk about their real challenges and successes at work, their concrete experiences that I can identify with. I can get a lot from these…

December 17, 2015

Voices from the Baltic Leadership Programme – Adrian Bucalowski

"The strength of the BSR region is very visible. " about the course? It is good that the course combines both academic and practical perspectives and that we are touching on social media, on building the culture of safety in an organisation and an atmosphere for making improvements. Now I will think of my work…

December 17, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Voices of the Baltic Leadership Programme – Jürgen Krempin

"Now I have new partners that I will be able to contact directly " about the course? I know 8 or 9 people here already from the activities we have had before. However, it is always good to meet regularly and to strengthen our network. Here we can all bring our assets, our impacts – how we are dealing…

December 17, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Priit Laaniste, Behind the scenes of the Baltic Leadership Programme, Ministry of Interior, Estonia

"Sometimes the smallest idea is the most useful" about international cooperation? "We have a saying in Estonian, 'to get stuck in a “frog’s pond', meaning if you only swim back and forth in the same small pond - you cannot really learn from that. So if you spend too much time in Estonia with your problems,…

May 11, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Behind the scenes of the Baltic Leadership Programme: Tine Weiss-Thorsoe, Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA)

"We like having guidelines, but we prefer having non-binding guidelines" international cooperation? "For me personally, in my job international cooperation means almost everything - because it is what I do on a daily basis. But also, I think that most countries in this group are small countries,…

April 23, 2015

Capacity building Civil Protection Flagship Projects

Behind the scenes of the Baltic Leadership Programme: Alo Tammsalu, Estonian Rescue Board

"Looking back helps us to look into the future" about international cooperation? "I have been participating in different EU- and NATO courses. They have given me a lot of contacts, which I have used to improve our systems. The Estonian system is quite new actually, and that is why we have tried to use…

April 23, 2015