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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.
Young European first-aiders from 10 Samaritan organisations in 9 countries competed in the 5th Samaritan Contest in Adria and Venice from August 7 to August 10. This year’s Contest was hosted by Italian SAM.I. member ANPAS.
The application phase for the 2014 SAMARITAN’s B.E.S.T awards has been officially opened!