Crossflood TTX in Siret, Romania

The EU-funded project CROSSFLOOD (Cross Border Flood Response Exercises in a Post-Conflict Environment) is opening a new approach for the next few years in Civil Protection. Post-conflict and low-conflict situations are becoming the next scenario. Civil Protection has moved from USAR to floods, then wildfires, and has coped well with that. Now, the implementation of demining units, detection, sampling, and decontamination of CBRNE risks are the new tasks. CROSSFLOOD aims to train Civil Defence Organisations and UCPM (Union Civil Protection Mechanism) modules in a TTX (table-top exercise) and an FSX (full-scale exercise) in operating their missions in a Post-Conflict area of operations.
The TTX prepares the participating EU-modules and teams for the scenario and the FSX in September. Over 50 participants from international teams and Romanian authorities were working side by side on the 3rd and 4th March in the Departamentul pentru Situații de Urgență (DSU) Siret training centre, I was participating at the TTX as Advuísor for DSU.
The aim is to train #EUCivilProtectionTeams in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) to support Ukraine and Romania following catastrophic flooding.
The CROSSFLOOD table-top exercise was supported by Virtual Reality (VR). VR in exercises are a well-established and successful tool for training and exercise management. At the CROSSFLOOD exercises, the Romanian Virtual Reality simulation team of SMURD is providing this important service.
The FSX will be conducted in September and will cover missions such as flooding assistance, CBRN support, and other civil support capabilities like demining units.
This civil protection project is coordinated by the Departamentul pentru Situații de Urgență with its Project Director, Dr Bogdan Pop, and supported by publiComm (PCC). PCC is an Austrian-registered private expert consultancy, specialising in providing advice, administration, management, organisation and support for Civil Protection authorities and organisations. PCC will support DSU by contributing to the project organisation and administration, supporting DSU with technical, logistic and travel management services, procurement and other project-related services.
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