Safe and inclusive childhoods

Engaging with other stakeholders on global and regional agendas transforms helpful synergies into trusted partnerships and joint action to promote children’s rights in many different areas.

Safe and resilient societies

Children at Risk is a flagship for the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).

The Expert Group works in close collaboration with the CBSS Secretariat’s Civil Security team – coordinator the EUSBSR Policy Area Secure – to explore and strengthen the role of children and youth in promoting a common societal security culture in the BSR and as contributors to building resilient societies.

Migration

The Expert Group has been in involved in several projects to protect the best interests of children in migration, which have resulted in a number of tools and conference conclusions which have been influential in guiding regional work in this field. Partnerships have been developed with the Central European Initiative, the Nordic Council of Ministers, Ministries and other national authorities, academia, professionals and civil society. The Expert Group continues to support partnerships which take forward these conclusions and tools developed in the context of these initiatives.

Past projects and initiatives

PROTECT Children on the Move

Children have better chances to be identified correctly and to receive appropriate support and care when they are given the opportunity to tell their stories and benefit from a best interests determination.

ProGuard

The provision of quality guardianship to unaccompanied children is key if they are to receive an appropriate level of care and protection and if they are to achieve their full potential.