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Italian Chair at INSARAG Regional AEME Group

18 October 2018
 
Luigi D’Angelo, from the Italian Department of Civil Protection, Director of Emergencies along with Giuseppe Romano, General Director of the Directorate for Emergencies, Technical Rescue and Fire-Fighting of the Italian National Fire-Fighters Corp is the new Chair of the AEME (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Regional Group of INSARAG, UN OCHA from 2019.

On 18th October, in Aix-en-Provence the Italian representatives received the new appointment in the frame of the last AEME Regional meeting and presented several operational activities of the USAR teams. Giuseppe Romano shared with the audience the concept of “barrier effect” through an ad hoc video and the scope of EASeR project.
 
 

 

Final Workshop on SOP, Warsaw, PL

3-5 October 2018
 
The workshop will present the index for SOP- IT, outline for SOP -INT as well as Recommendations and General Criteria as source for development of SOP and Recommendations. Beside the experts from Czech Republic, Italy and Poland, USAR external experts from Switzerland and Turkey will participate as well as Civil Protection National Authorities.
 
 

The Barrier Effect presented on the Italian National TV

1st August 2018
 
Giuseppe Romano, Director of Emergencies, Technical Rescue and Forest Fighting of the Italian National Fire-Fighter Corp presented the “Barrier Effect”at the most popular scientific program of Italy “Super Quark” on 1st August 2018, presented by the popular science journalist Piero Angela on Rai 1.
 
Link at (not available from outside Italy):
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2018/07/SuperQuark-5923d49e-d7c5-4390-a4e9-c2c629ad9b58.html
(from 1h:37m:12s to 1h:46m:50s)

Board of Experts Meeting in Pisa, IT

16 – 18 July 2018
 
The meeting will finalise the draft version of outlines/index for SOP- IT, SOP -INT as well as Recommendations in USAR operations referring to ASR1 and ASR2. These will be presented in Poland in October 2018. Experts from Czech Republic, Italy and Poland will participate.
 
 

Board of experts meeting in Ostrava, CZ

28 – 30 May 2018
 
The meeting will discuss the findings of the national survey on assessment in USAR operations Experts from Czech Republic, Italy and Poland will participate.

First Project Steering Committee Meeting in L’Aquila, IT

21 – 23 February 2018
 
Project beneficiaries and experts in serval fields (mapping, telecommunications, social media) met in Central Italy and visited earthquake affected sites to deepen the exchange on “barrier effect”.