News – Page 15

Baltic Sea Talent Pool – Open Call for Baltic Sea Youth Platform Working Groups

Baltic Sea Youth Platform invites you to join one of the two available Baltic Sea Youth Platform Working Groups.

Posted October 6, 2022

BSR Cultural Pearls: new social resilience project to be funded by Interreg

BSR Cultural Pearls, a new project on social resilience, was recently accepted for funding by the Interreg Baltic Sea programme.

Posted October 4, 2022

Annual Report of the CBSS Norwegian Presidency 2021-2022 has been released

The Annual Report of the CBSS Norwegian Presidency 2021-2022 has been published, presenting achieved milestones and the activities and projects in which the CBSS was involved during 2021-2022.

Posted October 3, 2022

Baltic Sea Youth Declaration 2022 contains concrete recommendations for a better region

Developed by over 200 young people and presented at the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2022, the latest Baltic Sea Youth Declaration contains 199 concrete recommendations for a sustainable and prosperous Baltic Sea Region.

Posted October 2, 2022

EUSBSR Annual Forum 2022: over 400 participants are moving towards “putting plans into practice” for a better Baltic Sea Region

At the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2022 in Lappeenranta, Finland, one of the largest pan-Baltic policy events, decision makers and experts focused on the concrete implementation of the current strategies and action plans on “Saving the sea”, “Connecting the region” and “Increasing prosperity”, amid the backdrop of the current multiple crises.

Posted September 30, 2022

NEEDS Intensive Study Programme on societal security in Latvia

The third Intensive Study Programme (ISP) of the NEEDS project, co-organised by the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and hosted by Riga Technical University, took place in Ronīši, Latvia on 12-16 September 2022.

Posted September 26, 2022

CBSS decision makers meet in Berlin, discuss dumped munitions and the role of the CBSS

The CBSS Committee of Senior Official members met in Berlin in their first meeting under the German presidency of the CBSS to address the future of the organisation and other pressing issues such as dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea.

Posted September 20, 2022

Cooperation on international human trafficking for labour exploitation shapes up in Berlin with a visit of Swedish experts

A Swedish delegation of members from the Swedish authorities dealing with human trafficking for labour exploitation went to Berlin to learn more about German initiatives on the topic.

Posted September 18, 2022

VOALA project on disaster preparedness in the Baltic Sea Region launches

The VOALA project on international and transboundary cooperation on the prevention of and preparedness for disasters has been launched in September 2022. The CBSS-led project will particularly focus on the involvement of civil society and non-civil protection actors.

Posted September 15, 2022

At the Baltic Sea Future Forum, sails are set towards a sustainable and prosperous region by 2030

At the Baltic Sea Future Forum, high-level participants including CBSS officials offered a glimpse into the future of the Baltic Sea Region and about what still needs to be done by 2030, with eye-opening discussions about offshore wind energy, youth and dumped munitions, among other topics.

Posted September 8, 2022

Meaningful youth participation in the EUSBSR continues at the Baltic Sea Youth Camp 2022

Young region builders met during the Baltic Sea Youth Camp 2022 in Lappeenranta, Finland to voice their opinions on the challenges the Baltic Sea Region is facing today and to develop a set of concrete recommendations for decision makers on how to better integrate young people and topics that should be on top of the Baltic Sea Region agenda.

Posted September 1, 2022

Prolonging working life and an ageing workforce are at the centre of CBSS-led project

As we are living longer lives while our active population is shrinking due to low fertility rates, the just-concluded Baltic Sea Labour Forum for Sustainable Working Life project looked into issues crucial for the socio-economic growth in the Baltic Sea Region: how to prolong working life and support active ageing.

Posted August 31, 2022