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Volunteers & authorities: CREWS meets BSR NOVA network
A recent CREWS workshop at the BSR-NOVA meeting examined how authorities and civil society can work together more effectively to strengthen societal resilience across the Baltic Sea Region. On 10 November 2025, a CREWS workshop held during the meeting of the Baltic Sea Region Network of Volunteer Organisations and Authorities (BSR-NOVA) focused on how authorities…
November 12, 202516Views
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PA Secure at EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot: BSR Capitals Connecting on preparedness and resilience
On 29 October 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, PA Secure organised the session “Connected Capitals: Local Action, Regional Resilience”. Building on earlier cooperation among Nordic capitals, the session brought together city practitioners from Helsinki, Tallinn and Warsaw, backed up by fresh comparative research on urban preparedness from the University of Latvia. Moderated by Andriy Martynenko…
November 3, 202571Views
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The Soft Core of Hard Security: PA Culture and PA Secure Joint Session at the EUSBSR Annual Forum
On October 30, 2025, at the EUSBSR Annual Forum in Sopot, Poland, the Policy Areas Culture and Secure hosted the session “Soft Core of Hard Security: Community Cohesion and Agency in Times of Insecurity”. The session particularly explored how social trust, community cohesion and civic engagement form the foundation of resilient societies. By highlighting initiatives…
November 1, 202551Views
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What is Citizens for Safety?

Citizens for Safety is a working title for a flagship project, defined in the Action Plan as follows: Effective learning and exchanging best practices on urban safety through a local city network. The network fosters urban safety exchanges throughout Baltic Sea region on locally-developed know-how strategies, shares experiences, analyses functions and activities of municipalities and develops new safety management in the cities more oriented towards the needs of local communities.

Leading organisation of this project are Gdansk Municipal Guard, Riga Municipality Police, Vilnius City Municipality, Tallinn Municipality Police, and Liepaja Municipality Police.

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