Between 1-3 October 2024 the “Great Amber” concert hall in Liepaja hosted the crisis management conference “Crisis communication – how to reach the stakeholders”. The conference was attended by almost 80 participants representing Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, Germany and Slovenia.
The event was opened by Liepāja’s Mayor Gunārs Ansiņš, who emphasized the importance of the topic on a global scale, as well as the need to be united and learn from each other by sharing experience. Apart from insightful interventions the framework of the conference included practical work in groups, giving the participants the opportunity to exercise and develop their crisis management expertise. On the final day of the conference, participants visited the NGO “Tabitas sirds”, which shared their experience of working with volunteers and cooperation with municipalities during various crises.
The conference was organised within the framework of the project “Connecting Resilient Cities” financed by the European Union. The aim of the project is to realize sustainable and citizen-friendly communication channels for crisis management at the international level. The project was developed in cooperation between two leading crisis and public safety city networks in the European Union – the International City Network for Crisis Management and the Union of the Baltic Cities – Safe Cities Commission.
More information:
Kaspars Vārpiņš
Chairman of UBC Safe Cities Commission
Jelgavas str. 48, Liepāja,
LV-3401, Latvia
Tel. +371 2 6406820
e-mail: kaspars.varpins@liepaja.lv
