INDIMA: new survey started

Several disasters this year have given the EU community mechanism new impulses and experiences: earthquakes, medical operations, floods and forest fires, the INDIMA consortium is applying the knowledge in the ongoing project. We are looking for new insights from current disasters such as the floods in Northern Europe and the lessons from the forest fire […]

INDIMA project: pre-exercise meeting

Innovation and the implementation of contemporary tools are key for the DG ECHO’s Knowledge Network projects. publiComm GmbH is a partner at the project INDIMA, funded by European Commission, responsible for working packages WP2 (planning and activities) and WP3 (communication and visibility). Our participation in the INDIMA PEM (SIMEX pre-exercise meeting) was very important for […]

Partnermeeting in Budapest

Preparing for the partner meeting next week in Budapest. Our partner Hungarian Red Cross, will be represented by András Molnár, disaster preparedness focal point and researcher in our mutual project. We will discuss the next online survey and the PEM (pre-exercise meeting) in October… #EUCivPro #EUsaveslives #disastermanagement #disasterpreparedness

Coordination meeting in Warsaw

Warsaw, at Friday, 24. September, Josef H. Riener, representing publiComm, had a coordination meeting with some members of the board of our INDIMA partner iHELP: ongoing projects, new projects and a trend analysis were the topics of our coordination meeting today. #projectmanagement #projectdevelopment #partnership #disastermanagement

INDIMA project: first phase completed

Six months of the INDIMA project (funded by the European Union) have passed, the first phase “needs assessment” and the “stakeholder analysis” have been successfully completed. With the workshop’s “coordination”, legal aspects, and interoperability, the relations between disaster risk management authorities and other stakeholders are examined. European experts from disaster and crisis management are invited […]

INDIMA: successful first quarter

The last month was filled with preparations for our workshop series in May, June, and July this Summer.  The needs assessment and the stakeholder analysis were successfully completed, the information management to disseminate the project progress was set up and the partner meetings held.  Furthermore, the QRM (quality and risk management) plan was drafted, and […]

Project INDIMA awarded

The INDIMA consortium, consisting of DSU (Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of the Interior, Romania), HRC (Hungarian Red Cross, Hungary), iHELP (iHELP Institute, Poland) and publicomm was awarded a contract by DG ECHO for the Knowledge Network Call. The European Commission is funding the “Integrated Disaster Management” project submitted in 2020. Focus of the project […]

Participation at KIRAS call

Friday, February 14th, we uploaded our proposal to the KIRAS bilateral Call “Künstliche Intelligenz in der Zivilen Sicherheitsforschung” (AI in Security Research) with Germany.Publicomm has to thank our partners at Austrian Red Cross, Headquarters, Research Department, Austrian Institute for Technology, Research Institute and SIMStation as well as our German Partners.Picture credit: (c) 2020, publicomm

Review of 2019

publiComm, had a very work-intensive, but successful year in close collaboration with our partners and colleagues, managing severeal multinational projects. On one hand, publicomm GmbH – was a member of the IDMEX consortium, conducting two tenders for DG ECHO. Both projects were new developments in Civil Protection, Lot 2 brought two PIX (plug in exercises) […]

TTX3 in Ghana upcoming

TTX3: the IDMEX consortium is working to finalise the preparations for the third Host Nation Support Exercise, to be conducted from 2nd till 6th of December, Accra, Ghana. DG ECHO has identified the importance of this part of international assistance and is financing three exercises. This exercise will be conducted with support of NADMO, the […]