'Partnership and Innovation' - European Civil Protection Forum
European Commission
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The 5th European Civil Protection Forum will take place in Brussels on 6 and 7 May 2015.
It will be hosted by Mr Christos Stylianides, the European Commissioner responsible for Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management.
Please pencil the dates into your calendar to discuss the challenges and opportunities of partnerships and innovation in our field, with topics covering all aspects of disaster management.
During the Civil Protection Forum you will have a chance to visit the indoor and outdoor exhibitions showing innovative disaster management technologies. A range of exhibitors will illustrate results of research and EU-funded projects in the area of disaster management and examples of technological innovation. The Civil Protection Forum and the exhibitions will offer networking opportunities to find new synergies between the civil protection community of users and research and development communities.
More information will be made available shortly on the website of the Civil Protection Forum, including soon the draft agenda and the call for exhibitors. The event will also be web streamed. Registration expected to start in late February-early March 2015.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about the Forum, please contact: ECHO-CIVIL-PROTECTION-FORUM@ec.europa.eu
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This year's CP Forum programme will feature a number of very interesting plenary panels on partnerships and innovation, with high-level speakers, as well as a number of expert panels on:
Planning for the extraordinary,
Understanding resilient cities,
Empowering resilient citizens,
Linking international disaster management actors,
Partnering with the private sector,
Science-based disaster management,
Innovation in the field,
Innovative partnership in training, and
Crisis communication.
It will be an interesting event for all actors in EU disaster management, making the link with the follow up of the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015 in Sendai).
Alexander KOPKE
http://ec.europa.eu/cpforum2015 | #EUCivPro
First afternoon of the EU Civil Protection Summit and it's quite a gathering. Hundreds of people working around disaster management in Europe and beyond. Opening plenary focussing on the growth and jobs angle to (lack of) good disaster risk management.
Drone's on display. A windy day in Brussels and a few regulatory and security challenges to get this many in one space, but it looks like the outdoor demo of how Remotely Piloted Air Systems serve disaster mapping and assessment will be a highlight of the disaster management exhibition. If you are in Brussels and you missed today's flights, there'll be a second go tomorrow with online streaming to the foyer of the EU Civil Protection Forum.
Will try to post some pictures tomorrow.
This afternoon's focus at the Forum is explicitly around innovation, from the diverse angles of public-private partnership, social media to communicate to disaster affected populations and UAVs and mapping. In a panel this afternoon about innovation for training in disaster management. Ability to share experience and best practice in emergencies across borders identified as critical. How to design knowledge-exchange comes once again?
innovation bingo here in the training panel: ecosystem - everyone wants to deepen collaboration but question is how? Need to define a common vision or an alignment on what we want to do. Before anything let's decide on what knoweldge is necessary to train future disaster managers, but before that we need to understand what is out there! First we need to map. This from the 'academic' on the panel - Fausto Marincioni, Università Politecnica delle Marche et Ancona.