BaltPrevResilience: Final Seminar - Awareness Raising Bridging and Community Resilience

About

Note: BaltPrevResilience stands for the Baltic Everyday Accident, Disaster Prevention and Resilience Project

There are too many injuries and fatalities, caused by everyday accidents, in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) and EU. The BaltPrevResilience goal is to prevent and reduce the consequences of such accidents. A key element in prevention and consequence reduction is improved learning from accidents and disasters, preferably already from minor everyday accidents.

BaltPrevResilience will enhance the learning and sharing of lessons. The project will introduce a process to achieve a common understanding of statistics, evaluation of experiences and sharing of evidence based knowledge and best practices.

The project dialogue will involve a wide and diversified group of relevant BSR emergency and crises actors and stakeholders. There will be three thematic UNEP APELL type seminars, prepared with studies on the themes collection of evidence based knowledge, assessment of information and data and learning, and finally awareness raising and building resilience.

The result will be a development of everyday accident and disaster prevention policies, in respect to both man-made and natural disasters, which is of significant importance at local, national, BSR and EU levels.

BaltPrevResilience will contribute significantly to implement the Priority Area Secure of the EU BSRS Action Plan and the EU HNS Guidelines to enhance protection from emergencies and accidents on land, in accordance with the UN Hyogo Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction. The project will be coordinated by a limited group of partners from BSR central and local government administration, research and training and civil protection services.

The purpose of the seminar is to inform about project deliveries and findings as well as to initiate future cooperation activities.

Objectives

This final seminar will:

• Contribute to common understanding of BSR authorities on data processing and its use for improvement of society resilience
• Familiarize with existing data processing systems in BSR region
• Exchange experiences on international actions taken in the past to facilitate awareness rising and community resilience in preparedness phase.

Extended Steering Group:

• Discussions about future cooperation possibilities.

The exercise:

As a part of the seminar participants are invited to an exercise about crossborder partnerships in dealing with floods, bridging and building community resilience including existing civil protection instruments and present possible training methods on the crises management processes during flood response management.

Participants invited:

Project partners’ representatives and actors in the field of civil protection within the Baltic Sea Region.