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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.
About 500.000 refugees entered the EU over the Balkan route in 2015. Thousands of employees and hundreds of thousands of volunteers of the Samaritan organisations render aid to refugees along their way across Europe.
On Monday, 9 November, European Samaritans from nine countries came together in the representative office of the State of Bremen in Berlin to discuss further cooperation in refugee aid.
At their meeting in September 2015, the partners of the flood project learned about the involvement of volunteers in flood relief in Poland and finalised the process chain for cross-border Samaritan support.
On 29 September 2015, Samaritan organisations from 10 countries conducted flash mobs to raise awareness for the importance of first aid training among young people.
The project Samaritan Mobile Care Complex by LSA has been selected as a semi-finalist in the EU’s Social Innovation Competition.
From 26-27 August, the project consortium of the ADAPT project, which is working on the improvement of disaster-related evacuations for people with disabilities, met in Bolzano, Italy.
About 200 participants from ten countries convened at the SAMARITAN Forum in Bolzano from 28th to 29th of August 2015.
At the European Civil Protection Forum 2015 from 6-7 May in Brussels, stakeholders from Europe and the world talked about new opportunities for cooperation and the latest developments on the European level.
