“…That research challenge has been met in an ongoing project called Gaining Security Symbiosis -GSS 3 , funded by Interreg / European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) from 2010 to 2014 4 . By adapting topical disaster research results (Rodrigues et al, 2007) to the EU context of security and cross-border preparation and training the research in the GSS-project has already produced a set of promising results (Asproth, Holmberg, & Löfstedt, 2010;Asproth, Holmberg, & Håkansson, 2012;Dubois, Asproth, Holmberg, Löfstedt, & Öberg, 2013).…”