The Baltic Sea plays an increasingly important role in Europe’s politics, economy, and security.
Owing to its central geographical position, it is home to a dense concentration of critical energy infrastructure, from underwater cables and pipelines to offshore wind farms that are essential to Europe’s economy, security, and well-being. At the same time, Russia-linked maritime activity has increasingly turned the Baltic into a grey-zone battlespace, where commercial vessels, undersea cables, pipelines, and navigation systems are exposed to disruption and interference below the threshold of open conflict.
At the same time, the understanding of the Baltic Sea has undergone a substantial shift – from a collection of separate national assets to a highly interconnected regional energy-security system.
The growing density of critical infrastructure means that vulnerabilities, disruptions, and dependencies increasingly extend across borders. At a time when security has become a defining feature of the world around us, the energy transition is creating new nodes, connections, and interdependencies at a pace that requires us to rethink the security architecture designed to protect them. The security of the Baltic Sea can therefore no longer be treated as a concern confined to its immediate neighbourhood, as a resilient Baltic Sea is essential to the security and prosperity of Europe as a whole.
The Baltic Resilience Initiative (BRI) – Towards a Common Security Framework for Critical Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region is designed to address these challenges.
Recognising the complexity and interconnected nature of the risks ahead, BRI provides an international, multi-stakeholder platform for strengthening cooperation among the public, private, and security actors involved in protecting critical maritime infrastructure. Through a series of roundtable discussions, tabletop exercises, reports and publications the project strives to create a sustainable and operational framework for public-private cooperation to strengthen the security of energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
The Baltic Sea plays an increasingly important role in Europe’s politics, economy, and security.
Owing to its central geographical position, it is home to a dense concentration of critical energy infrastructure, from underwater cables and pipelines to offshore wind farms that are essential to Europe’s economy, security, and well-being. At the same time, Russia-linked maritime activity has increasingly turned the Baltic into a grey-zone battlespace, where commercial vessels, undersea cables, pipelines, and navigation systems are exposed to disruption and interference below the threshold of open conflict.
At the same time, the understanding of the Baltic Sea has undergone a substantial shift – from a collection of separate national assets to a highly interconnected regional energy-security system.
The growing density of critical infrastructure means that vulnerabilities, disruptions, and dependencies increasingly extend across borders. At a time when security has become a defining feature of the world around us, the energy transition is creating new nodes, connections, and interdependencies at a pace that requires us to rethink the security architecture designed to protect them. The security of the Baltic Sea can therefore no longer be treated as a concern confined to its immediate neighbourhood, as a resilient Baltic Sea is essential to the security and prosperity of Europe as a whole.
The Baltic Resilience Initiative (BRI) – Towards a Common Security Framework for Critical Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region is designed to address these challenges.
Recognising the complexity and interconnected nature of the risks ahead, BRI provides an international, multi-stakeholder platform for strengthening cooperation among the public, private, and security actors involved in protecting critical maritime infrastructure. Through a series of roundtable discussions, tabletop exercises, reports and publications the project strives to create a sustainable and operational framework for public-private cooperation to strengthen the security of energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
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