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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Promoting cultural planning as a tool to address societal issues in rural areas, the Rural Cultural Planning project held its RurCultural Workshop in Līgatne, Latvia on 12-13 August 2022.
Upcoming Baltic Sea Youth Camp and new Baltic Sea Region Youth Forum “elevate the voices of youth so that they can be heard by decisionmakers” in the Baltic Sea Region.
Germany has assumed the presidency of the CBSS, taking over from Norway. Under its presidency, Germany will notably focus on offshore wind energy, dumped munitions and youth in the Baltic Sea Region.
The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Youth Forum event was held in hybrid format on 11-12 June at the CBSS Secretariat with invited youth participants – representing all 10 member states of the CBSS. Four roundtable discussions were organised on different topics: Forest, wetlands and biodiversity; Innovation; Resilient cities; and Sea and coastline resilience.
The CBSS has been traditionally active in the field of climate resilience, one of the policy areas that were addressed during the event that was held in Brussels earlier in June 2022.
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, one of the founding fathers of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and a former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, has passed away on Sunday, 19 June 2022.
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