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CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION
Throughout the project the authors greatly benefited from the existence of a
network of advisors from competent authorities and other stakeholders. This
advisory network included the Swedish Emergency Management Agency, National
Emergency Supply Agency (Finland), Ministry of Interior of Finland, Rescue
Department, Ministry of Defense of Finland, The Main School of Fire Service
(Poland) and EADS Secure Networks Oy (Finland). Our particular thanks go to
these institutions for their fruitful cooperation and the professional, practiceoriented
input to our study.
The project has also benefited from being part of a larger network, the
CIVPRO Civil Protection Network, coordinated by Dr. Timo Hellenberg from the
Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. This network, which made the
project possible in the first place, has also contributed to the current study by
facilitating cooperation with, and learning processes from, a wide range of other
related projects.
Within the framework of the project and CIVPRO, we organised in 2007
several smaller workshops and one larger conference on critical infrastructures.
The International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection was held in the
House of Estates in Helsinki 4-5 October, 2007. The conference was sponsored,
beside the Commission, by the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office and the United
States Embassy to Finland (U.S. Department of State). Our particular thanks go to
these institutions.
The conference provided the chance to exchange views with a wide range of
high-level specialists and professionals from several countries and institutions,
such as the European Commission, Finnish government and Prime Minister’s
Office, United States Department of Homeland Security, Swedish Emergency
Management Agency, United Nations/International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction, London Underground and several other authorities and research
institutions. The presentations of the distinguished speakers are available at
CIVPRO’s website http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/civpro.
There are many people to acknowledge, who were generous with their time,
support, assistance, professional information and comments, and presentations
during the project. These people include Matti Aaltonen, William Anderson, Ole
Arhenius, James Caverly, Aapo Cederberg, Ole Damsgaard, Charles Gadomski,
Ivan Gotovchits, Rein Haavel, Axel Hagelstam, Timo Härkönen, Andrei Iatsenia,
Ilkka Kananen, Timo Kinnunen, Markku Kivinen, Kari Kosonen, Richard
Langlais, Mark Lewis, Jan Lundberg, Angelica Matveeva, Jukka Metso, Jens
Müller, Radica Nusdorfer, Kimmo Paakkonen, Are Piel, Arto Pullinen, Hannu
Rantanen, Reijo Salminen, René Sirol, Bengt Sundelius, Vladimir Vasilyev, Risto
Volanen.
Any project, especially one financed by the EU, needs highly qualified
administrative and financial professionals to carry out the complicated tasks
related to budget management and financial reporting. We have been lucky to
work with such people, especially Jacob Boëthius and Anita Kullén from
Nordregio. Thanks also go to Sophie Didriksson, Brita Larsson and Liselott Happ-
Tillberg from Nordregio as well as Essi Lindroos and Anne Pynnönen from the
Aleksanteri Institute, for their help in organizing the seminars and conferences and
for taking care of other practicalities. Mark Waller is particularly to be thanked for
the quick and professional proof-reading and language editing of the manuscript.
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