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Last Saturday, on 29th November, the SAMARITAN’s B.E.S.T. Awards 2014 were handed over in Austria. The local award went to ASBÖ’s Internetcafé ZwischenSchritt, the international award was won by the SAMETS project, headed by ANPAS.
On 29th November, the winners of the 2014 SAMARITAN’s B.E.S.T. awards will be announced in Gmunden, Austria.
The last group of interns in the Mob-Lab project will finish their internships at the SAM.I. General Secretariat and ASB Germany’s foreign aid department tomorrow. SAM.I. and ASB hosted a total of six interns (two at a time), between June and October of this year.
Federatia Samaritenilor Romani (FSR) from Romania was officially accepted into our network at the meeting of the presidium last Friday in Stuttgart.
On September 17-21 2014, representatives from 8 SAM.I. members met in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, for project meetings of the two civil protection projects Cross-Border Samaritan Flood Preparedness and SAMETS.
On September 24, Samaritan organisations in 10 countries conducted a series of flash mobs to raise awareness for first aid training among young people. The flash mobs are part of our Year of Youth Engaged in First Aid and therefore followed the motto “Heroes without Superpowers”.
The ASB regional association of Bad Windsheim is currently implementing the 2014 round of Junior First Responder, their international project on youth in first aid.
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.
From July 4 to 6, representatives of 7 SAM.I. members and a number of experts met in Wiesbaden, Germany for working meetings of the projects Cross Border Samaritan Flood Preparedness and SAMETS.
SAM.I., ASB Germany and ANPAS are participating in the MOB-LAB project, through which a total of 6 interns from ANPAS will get to know the work of SAM.I. and ASB Germany for one month each.
