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From 6-8 June 2016, the partners of INDRIX (Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index) met in Bolzano, Italy for their second meeting.
From 21 to 24 April, teams from the 8 Samaritan organisations participating in the flood project came together in Austria for a field exercise hosted by ASBÖ.
From 9-11 March 2016, the project ADAPT met in Nykøbing, Denmark for their third international workshop.
For more than one year, ASB and SSU have been supporting internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, who had to flee their home region. The project, which is a collaboration with the German Foreign Ministry, is now being extended.
From 25-26 February 2016, the project Cross-Border Samaritan Flood Preparedness conducted the first of its two concluding exercises and put the working results to the test.
Today, on 26 February 2016, SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL (SAM.I.) is launching a social media photo series as part of its motto year “When Numbers Become Faces”.
On 19 February 2016, the INDRIX project on inclusive disaster resilience held its first meeting in Rome.
On 26 January, the EU-financed SAMETS project held its final conference in Brussels. They presented their guidelines on working with groups with special needs in emergency shelters.
On 20 January, the new round of EU financed civil protection projects was kicked off in Brussels. Several Samaritan organisations are involved in the project INDRIX, which will develop an inclusive index to assess resilience.
From 18-20 November 2015, the project partners of the ADAPT project met in Saponara, Sicily, to continue the conceptualisation of a data platform to improve the support of vulnerable people in case of emergency evacuations.