IMPRESS and “Disaster Medicine and Health-Crisis Management” MSc

In order to strengthen IMPRESS dissemination activity, KEMEA has established close collaboration with the postgraduate course (MSc) on “Disaster Medicine and Health-Crisis Management” (http://crisis.med.uoa.gr) of the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.   

Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town of Bad Aibling

The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich.
The trains' operator said both trains had partially derailed and were wedged into each other.
Emergency teams, some winched in by helicopter, worked for hours to free casualties from the wreckage.

EENA Annual Report 2015 now available! (Drones, emergency apps, caller location, and much more: Read about EENA's work in 2015.)

EENA has published the Annual Report for 2015!

If you are interested in the emergency services and public safety field, then read about EENA’s work on drones, emergency apps, caller location, publications and events, awareness of 112, and more important moments of their work in this short overview of 2015.

Just In Time Disaster Training - Library

DRC Group has developed an on-line video library, in order to provide a single, easy to search source in which individuals, agencies and organizations can access Just In Time Disaster Training videos.

The videos found in this library cover disaster related mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery training for a wide variety areas.

EENA joins ‘HELP 112’ EU project to improve caller location in emergencies

EENA launched the ‘HELP 112’ project that will run for 1 year with the aim of improving caller location information transferred to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs).

EENA Conference 2016 - Online registrations are open!

Each year, the EENA Conference brings together European emergency services, public authorities, researchers and industry representatives from all over Europe and beyond! About 500 delegates from more than 50 countries are expected at the EENA Conference which is an action packed 3 days of information sharing, discussions and debates.

'PEMEA Architecture' document published by EENA Technical Committee

There are presently hundreds of emergency calling applications in use across Europe but none of them permit seamless roaming and so are constrained in where they can be used.