During spring of 2018, the EU-funded programme IPA Disaster Risk Assessment and Mapping (DRAM) runs technical workshops in its seven partner countries. Focusing on how disasters are best handled at the national level, the workshops are tailored to fit the needs of each hosting partner.

Well informed and prepared residents form the basis for society’s management of dire circumstances. Tasked by the Government, MSB now starts several endeavours to increase private persons’ knowledge about crisis preparedness, heightened preparedness and in the extreme, war. Today MSB hands over the final report regarding the task.

In 2017, the government tasked MSB to raising Swedes’ awareness of how to prepare for various crises and, in the extreme, war. By the end of this spring, all households in Sweden will have received an information brochure home in the mail.

Decentralised approaches to risk-, vulnerability- and capability assessments.

On the 13th and 14th of November, MSB and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilitate an expert round table discussion for some of the most knowledgeable researchers and experts in the field and a public seminar on Safeguarding Democracy and Preventing Violent Extremism. The meetings are held as a part of the Swedish Embassy’s theme Safe and Sound, in the House of Sweden, Washington DC.