Which fire prevention activity works? The EVAPREM project reveals the truth

Over the last two years, national rescue boards of five countries from Baltic and Nordic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Frederiksborg from Denmark and South-West Finland - have been involved in an EU financed project with an aim to develop a universal and comprehensive model for evaluating the results of prevention measures. The research was…

December 13, 2018

Civil Protection

From local to European level, focus on the new rescEU proposal

European Civil Protection Forum 2018, the largest event on European civil protection cooperation took place on 5-6 March, in Brussels, Belgium. The Forum was organised by the European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department (ECHO) and brought together stakeholders from across Europe to discuss achievements in disaster risk management, share ideas…

March 5, 2018

Flagship Projects Research

How ready are we? EVAPREM project meets in Riga to discuss effectiveness of prevention activities.

Erasmus of Rotterdam’s famous words, that “prevention is better than cure” resonate the most with the world of Fire and Rescue. It has been proven time and again that prevention can save lives and money: fire alarms in homes is one of the obvious examples of preventive measures that work well. However, considering limited resources…

August 21, 2017

Flagship Projects

What is BaltPrevResilience?

BaltPrevResilience is created as a response to the multiple everyday accidents that occur in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims to prevent such accidents and reduce their impacts by improving the prerequisites for collection and analysis of impact and response data at the local level. The project will do so by introducing a process…

October 23, 2013