DiveSMART Baltic representatives, Else Timms and Jonas Westerberg from the Swedish Coast Guard were invited to speak in the Workshop on Transnational Cooperation held yesterday, on the 10th of October, in Brussels. DiveSMART Baltic was used as a showcase for transnational co-operation. The Workshop was organised in the framework of the European Week of Regions and…
Call the Agent
Call the Agent October summit gathered Finnish shipbrokers, agents and several stakeholders to Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, 3rd of October 2019. The Clarion auditorium was full, and the theme ‘Intelligent and secure ports’ was covered from various viewpoints. ResQU2 was in the limelight as HAZARD Project Director Lauri Ojala introduced the project platform and brochures were available throughout…
ChemSAR Handbook going places
ChemSAR Handbook for Maritime SAR in HNS Incidents was spotted on many tables when the Technical Correspondence Group on Hazardous and Noxious Substances of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) held a two-day meeting this week to commence the developing of a training curriculum for chemical spill response for the Member States. The meeting took place…
Europe Forum in Turku
The City of Turku hosted a three-day Europe Forum on 29-31 August 2019. The Turku Europe Forum promotes an open debate between citizens and decision-makers. The Europe Forum is a platform for a social debate on Finland’s current and future role in Europe and in the European Union from a longer-term perspective. The Europe Forum…
HAZARD project achieved their defined goals
The EU partially funded HAZARD has successfully ended in Hamburg after three years of project activities. HAZARD involved 14 different partners from Germany, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Since September 2016, 10 large-scale HAZARD exercises have been conducted in three partner countries. The last drill of the project arranged in Hamburg was completed in…
Seminar/workshop 22-23 Oct 2019: Developments and the relation in maritime incident control – Are they strictly technological? –
A seminar/workshop in Riga 22-23 October 2019 will concentrate on the latest developments in the maritime sector and what it means to maritime incident control. How to deal with these challenges? How can we optimise the respond to incidents? The new technological innovations and solutions and their influence to the rescue operation are under a…
Best practices for rescue operations in hazardous and noxious substances incidents
Save the date 22-23 Oct 2019! ResQU2 is organising a seminar/workshop in Riga 22-23 October 2019. The purpose is to share the gained knowledge and best practices in incidents involving hazardous and noxious substances, whether the incident happens in a port or at sea. The seminar will go deeper into risk management, organising international exercises…
ResQU2 a new Flagship of the EUSBSR PA SECURE
ResQU2 Project Platform was granted a Flagship status Uunder Policy Area Secure) by the National Coordinators of the EUSBSR in their meeting in Copenhagen on 15 May 2019. The Flagship status means that ResQU2 project platform work is valued in meeting the targets set in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in relation…
DiveSMART Baltic and ChemSAR benefits explained to maritime safety experts
Two of the ResQU2 projects partners, representing DiveSMART Baltic and ChemSAR, were invited to the Maritime Safety Conference to demonstrate the best-practices discovered in the projects. Mr. Jonas Westerberg (DiveSMART Baltic) told and showed what they have done in making the rescuing of people from a sunken ship safer. Mr. Teemu Niemelä (ChemSAR) introduced the created ChemSAR SOPs for…
ResQU2 in a high-level joint workshop on Hybrid scenarios in the Baltic Sea
The University of Turku/ResQU2 project and the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) with its Communities of Interest (COI) on Vulnerabilities and Resilience organized a workshop on ‘Hybrid Scenarios in the Baltic Sea’. The workshop took place in Velkua, in the Archipelago Sea on 28–29 May 2019. The event convened together some 25…