The overall objective is to improve civil protection preparedness and response to all kinds of disasters inside the Member States/Participating States of the Mechanism by providing a testing environment and a learning opportunity for all actors involved in civil protection assistance interventions: a full-scale exercise.
Themes & priorities:
The scenario for the exercises should build on risk assessments.
Examples, but not exclusively, extreme weather, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, industrial risk, critical infrastructure disruption, marine pollution, epidemic/health risk, CBRN, and multi-sectorial emergencies.
In addition to the main theme, cross-cutting issues such as gender, age, persons with disabilities, human rights, environmental sustainability, green economic practices, digitalisation, resilience in infrastructure, the protection of cultural heritage, etc. are encouraged to be considered and included as relevant.
Proposals that can be funded:
The beneficiaries will design, plan, conduct and self-evaluate one full-scale exercise project in Member States.
The full-scale exercise project must include the following elements and activities (see section 2.3: minimun requirements):
- Realistic and challenging scenario linked to risk assessments
- Management and control structures for the project and for the conduct of the exercises
- Activation of the Mechanism
- Deployment of an EU Civil Protection Team
- Deployment of assets and teams of the European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP)
- Use of the Common Emergency Communication and Information System (CECIS)
- Information
