Month: October 2024

This week I attended as the Project Manger the first design meeting of the project EU MODEX EUCPT-TAST in Tenerife: The exercise management had a three-day conference in Santa Cruz with the CABILDO DE TENERIFE, which is exactly civil protection. The design of the exercise “VULCANICA” were discussed, the time frame adopted, and stakeholders analysed. The meeting was supported by the island government, the president of the Cabildo, Dª Rosa Elena Dávila Mamely visited the meeting and discussed with the Project Director, Dr Bogdan Pop, who presented the project.

The cooperation with the UCPM (Union Civil Protection Mechanism) was very positively mentioned, and the importance of an exercise for a possible volcano eruption was highlighted. The exercise will be held in September 2025 and all relevant authorities on national, regional and local levels will be involved. Three EUCPTs (European Union Civil Protection Team), consisting of six members, supported by a TAST (Technical Assistance and Support Team) of four will do an advisory/scoping mission.

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I joined today a webinar with the provoking title: “Is the Humanitarian Operational System Reaching Its Expiration Date?”. This webinar was hosted by DevelopmentAid and brought some insights into the trends of the last years, well presented by Ali Al Mokdad. Development Aid is the world’s premier information service provider for international development aid and economic and humanitarian assistance stakeholders.
For me, there are some similarities to the disaster relief organisations, but not so much to the civil protection authorities; it was very interesting for me because I worked in Humanitarian Aid a long time ago.

The picture is a screenshot from the webinar “Is the Humanitarian Operational System Reaching Its Expiration Date?”. by DevelopmentAid, presented by Ali Al Mokdad.