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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 29 September 2015, Samaritan organisations from 10 countries conducted flash mobs to raise awareness for the importance of first aid training among young people.
About 200 participants from ten countries convened at the SAMARITAN Forum in Bolzano from 28th to 29th of August 2015.
On 27th April 2015, the ADAPT project partners met in Berlin to discuss the improvement of disaster evacuation for people with disabilities.
SAM.I. thanks all its partners for the productive cooperations in 2014 and wishes everybody happy holidays and a successful start for 2015!
In their decision from 11th December 2014, the European Court of Justice has upheld the special role volunteering organisations fulfil in the rescue- and patient transport systems of many European countries.
The European Commission’s Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion has put out a call for proposals on elderly care.
Federatia Samaritenilor Romani (FSR) from Romania was officially accepted into our network at the meeting of the presidium last Friday in Stuttgart.