The 8th Staff Exchange Twinning Visit (SET-8) of SEMEDFIRE is scheduled for the week 02-06 December in Nicosia and Larnaka, Cyprus.
The activities of the specific SET under Work Package 6 is the last exchange visit of the SEMEDFIRE project. It will also conclude the first half of the WP6 planned actions, lead by the General Direction of Civil Protection and Crisis Management (DGSCGC) and Nimes Metropole in France.
The two French advanced partners will visit Cyprus during the first week of December to deliver the scheduled actions of their Work Package and complete the first stage of knowledge, experience, best practices and data exchange on fire management with the project coordinator EUC-CERIDES.
In an effort to enhance the exposure and outreach of the last Staff Exchange Visit, the project partners decided to combine the scheduled actions with the Nicosia Risk Forum of 2024. The Forum will take place on the 4th and 5th of December and its key theme is “Strengthening the Disaster Resilience of the Mediterranean Region: Safety, Security, and Climate Crisis Challenges”. It is expected to bring together an impressive array of experts, academics, government representatives, industrial and societal stakeholders in civil protection, disaster and crisis management, wildfire, safety, security and climate. The Forum is co-organised by the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus and the Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES) of the European University Cyprus. It will take place under the auspices of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Nikos Christodoulides, who will also provide a welcome speech on the 5th of December.
The SEMEDFIRE project teams of EUC-CERIDES, DGSCGC and Nimes Metropole are expected to participate in the works of the Nicosia Risk Forum. The French Advanced Partners will lead three breakout sessions and one special panel discussion. DGSCGC will present to the forum participants valuable information about the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) and the Host Nation Support Guidelines. Nimes Metropole will present the Hub.46 Civil protection initiative at the airport of Nimes and will moderate the special panel discussion on Interagency Collaboration in Disaster Management. Additionally, one breakout session will be lead by EUC-CERIDES, presenting the work executed and the results achieved by the project during its first 24 months.
The SEMEDFIRE project teams have also planned knowledge exchange activities with local authorities in Cyprus and presentations during relevant Masters and PhD classes, at the European University in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Following the completion of the Staff Exchange Visits of the project in December 2024, the SEMEDFIRE Advanced Partners and the co-ordinator EUC-CERIDES, have planned the remaining two field exercises and one Hands-on Short Course until April 2025. The upcoming actions will conclude the scheduled visits, courses, trainings and exercises and will lead the project to its last 6-month phase until December 2025.
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