Fire and Rescue Innovation Network grows. FIRE-IN in Barcelona

Catalan Fire and Rescue Service hosted the second Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project in Barcelona on 15 May 2019. FIRE-IN (Fire and Rescue Innovation Network) is a five-year Horizon 2020 project, which started in 2017 with an aim to identify practitioners’ current needs and connect them with relevant innovative solutions, research and standardisation…

May 17, 2019

Flagship Projects Volunteerism

PA Secure visit to Denmark: rescue volunteers, youth and veterans

On 28 of March 2019, PA Secure's Andriy Martynenko, Adviser at the CBSS Secretariat, was invited to present PA Secure, FIRE-IN project and the CBSS civil security activities at the symposium in the city of Sønderborg (Denmark). The symposium was organised by the Nordic Dialogue and gathered more than 50 participants from Danish fire and…

March 29, 2019

Flagship Projects

Flagship FIRE-IN: first year results at Annual Dissemination Workshop

80 participants from all fields related to Fire & Rescue in Europe: researchers, experts, national rescue services, civil protection agencies, NGOs, innovation and industry from 15 countries gathered for the first Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project on 26 June 2018. The workshop was hosted by the National Fire Corps (Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili…

June 29, 2018

Flagship Projects PA Secure

Three news Flagships under PA Secure

The decision to grant three new initiatives Flagship status in the Policy Area Secure was made during the first National Coordinators’ meeting under the Estonian Chairmanship, on 26 September in Tallinn, Estonia. The decision acknowledges the PA Secure’s significant contribution to the work of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: during its existence,…

October 6, 2017

Flagship Projects

FIRE-IN meeting in Rome: ready for engaging practitioners

What happens if a truck transporting dangerous chemicals collides with a train? A fire starts in a tall building or in a mountainous area? What are the rescue procedures in different countries? What resources are available? How ready are the rescue services? What can we learn from the experiences abroad? On 18-19 September 2017 civil protection…

September 21, 2017

Civil Protection Flagship Projects Research

CBSS helps bringing state-of-the-art Fire and Rescue Technologies to the Region

CBSS Secretariat's Civil Protection team participated in a kick-off meeting of the new project, FIRE-IN, set to improve national and European fire and rescue capability development. FIRE-IN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme and consists of 16 partners from 8 European countries, representing research, practitioners, governmental agencies and business. Within…

May 24, 2017