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

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…

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CIVIL PROTECTION FORUM 2018: INTERVIEW WITH Mitja Bricelj, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia

In preparation for our session “Transnational cooperation for effective disaster risk management” at the European Civil Protection Forum 2018 we asked one of the panelists, Mitja Bricelj, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia:  "In your opinion, how does an EU macro-regional strategy, as a platform, contribute to increased resilience of communities?" "Based on experiences…

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CIVIL PROTECTION FORUM 2018: INTERVIEW WITH Karolina Kalinowska, DG ECHO

In preparation for our session “Transnational cooperation for effective disaster risk management” at the European Civil Protection Forum 2018 we asked Karolina Kalinowska, Policy Officer at the European Commission's DG ECHO, who helped us with the organisation of the panel: "How can the macro-regional strategies contribute to the implementation of the EU Sendai Action Plan and vice-versa? How…

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Civil Protection Forum 2018: interview with Professor Angelo Masi

In preparation for our session "Transnational cooperation for effective disaster risk management" at the European Civil Protection Forum 2018 we asked one of the panelists, Professor Angelo Masi: How can prevention be scaled-up through international knowledge exchange?  Professor Masi: "Knowledge-sharing is fundamental in scaling-up prevention. I state that not only because I am a researcher, that is a person…

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Macro-regional cooperation: a vital need for societal security in the Baltic Sea Region

Interview with Professor Bengt Sundelius, Strategic Adviser to the Director General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) CBSS Civil Security team met with Professor Sundelius to discuss the need for international cooperation in the field of civil protection, the examples of such cooperation and the future challenges for the Baltic Sea Region.   Bengt Sundelius is Professor…

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