🏛️CERIDES proudly participated and actively contributed to the 🇨🇾🇪🇺 Cyprus #CY2026EU 3rd t High level Workshop on Fire Risks.
👥🤝🏛The European Commission (DG ECHO) and the Union for the Mediterranean co-organised this High-Level Workshop, within the framework of the PPRD Med Programme, building on the two previous editions held in Tunis (2024) and Barcelona (2025).
🔎👉The CY2026EU edition in Pafos focused operationally on fire risk management, addressing both wildfires (forest and bush fires) and industrial fire risks. Fire emergencies are increasingly more complex, posing multifaceted systemic challenges, thus requiring integrated, intersectoral and interdisciplinary approaches.
📚🗣Discussions address among others: integrated fire management, early detection via space-based and satellite services, fire monitoring, forecasting and decision-support AI and advanced analytics, and of course governance and interoperability frameworks.
🏛️🧑🚒🔥🛩️ The workshop highlights regional cooperation around the Cyprus Regional Aerial Firefighting Station (CRAFS), thus providing a platform for EU and non-EU Mediterranean partners, policymakers and experts, to deliberate and exchange views, opinions, experiences and lessons learned on strengthening operational cooperation across the disaster management cycle.
Landscape Resilience and Integrated Fire Management events kicked off today with a working session on Wildfire strategic areas by @paucostafoundation .
Experts from #Cyprus, #Spain, #France, the #UK and the #Netherlands are joining forces in wildfire research EU projects.
@sec_civile_france@uniwageningen@deptofforests@cyprusfireservice
Stay tuned for a lot more tomorrow and on Thursday!
Today, as we together with our women scientists honour the international #WomenInScienceDay let's focus once again on the crucial importance for equal access to research and employment based exclusively on every individual's skills and abilities, regardless of gender or any other characteristics totally unrelated to scientific research.
@europeanunicy
Prof. George Boustras @geobous delivered today the Keynote Speech at the #Pyrogeography Seminar currently taking place at Wageningen University & Research. The theme of the speech is “An Integrated Fire Management Model for #Cyprus”.
Prof. Boustras pointed out the need for a new approach in 🔥🌳 management in 🇨🇾 with active participation from the public
2023 recorded the highest average temperature on earth, since records begun. The effects of #climatecrisis are evident! #RegionalCollaboration can provide a much needed catalyst for the establishment of a positive agenda.
#NRF2024 due to take place in December 24 will provide the space for the development of the #CivPro agenda for the Mediterranean
#ufm
@europeancommission - @eu_echo
#prevention #firescience #CivPro
@semedfire
European University Cyprus
EUC Research Office
Almost nineteen years have passed since the devastating Indian Ocean #Tsunami, on December 26, 2004. Approximately 230,000 people were killed or are still missing while the impact on communities in South and South-East Asia has been enormous with widespread coastal destruction in #Bangladesh, #india, #indonesia, #malaysia, #Myanmar, #SriLanka, and #thailand – as well as 12 countries.
Almost two decades after that horrifying day, on this year’s World Tsunami Awareness Day #WTAD2023, of 5 November, Asia’s coastal and island communities can look back and take pride in having rebuilt their ways of life and regional economies, but much still needs to be done elsewhere on the planet to achieve early warning services and greater preparedness.
CERIDES @europeanunicy proudly joins #UNESCO’s #GetToHighGround campaign to raise awareness, which helps saving lives in such an event which in past centuries has impacted and in some cases destroyed coastal areas #cyprus too.
@unesco
#UNDRR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
@europeancommission@eu_echo
Happening now at the Security Research Event #sre2023 held in Brussels. @cerides_coe Centre of Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences @europeanunicy European University Cyprus is honored to participate at this high-level event with its Research Programmes Manager Ms Thalia Christou
She had the opportunity to meet with POP-ART project partners, #ETRA as well as @policianacional representatives and discuss project progress and upcoming collaborations!!
The event provides a valuable combination of insights for various aspects in the field of #SecurityResearch and #DisasterManagement.
Speakers, amongst others, called for a more comprehensive policy framework in many domains and tailored made tools for enhancing resilience and interoperability. Preparedness measures should be No.1 to the agenda.
Validated technologies, capacity building in emergency management and tabletop exercises in combination with enhanced interorganisation collaboration, should be prioritized for rendering organizations, critical infrastructures and communities more resilient!
Also, its very important to highlight that our #meticos project is being presented at the event exhibition allowing stakeholders to try the METICOS solution and looking forward to the Final project event taking place tomorrow here in #Brussels!
#H2020BESCluster #securityresearch
European University Cyprus / @cerides_coe - Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences was honoured to be invited to participate in the high-level#CivilProtection events which took place in #Valencia, #Spain between the 18th and the 19th of October 2023, hosted by the Union for the Mediterranean and the European Commission - ECHO.
CERIDES - Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences was represented in these events by its co-Director Dr. Christos Dimopoulos, who attended the joint session between the #CivilProtection Directors - General of the Union for the Mediterranean Member States and the European Commission #European #Union Member States and Participating States of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (#UCPM) on the morning of the 18th of October 2023.
Later on in the same day, Dr. Dimopoulos gave a #keynote #speech during the 4th meeting of the #CivilProtection Directors-Generals of the Union for the Mediterranean Member States.
During his speech, Dr. Dimopoulos highlighted the critical importance of the #Regional #Dialogue #Platform on #CivilProtection, which has been introduced and is being hosted by the Union for the Mediterranean.
He also showcased the continuous #support of #CERIDES to the platforms' aims and objectives through its participation in #regional and #professionaldialogue #research #projects and #activities ffunded by European Commission - ECHO European Commission - ECHO
Dr. Christos Dimopoulos also reiterated the strong #commitment of #CERIDES to support the implementation of the new PPRD Med project, which constitutes a significant tool for the strengthening of #societal #resilience in the #Mediterranean region.
#CERIDES strongly supports the #2030 Union for the Mediterranean #Action #Plan on #Civil #Protection, as this was presented by Mr. Laurent ALFONSO, #UfMs Expert on Civil Protection, during the #UfM - Director Generals Meeting.
#CERIDES is grateful for the invitation received by #UfM and #ECHO to attend and contribute to the successful implementation of these significant events.
@europeanunicy European University Cyprus
EUC Research Office
Nasser Kamel
Tristan Simonart
Laurent ALFONSO
Dionysios Stotis
Today is international Disaster Risk Reduction Day #DRRday
Why is this day so important?
According to the #UNDRR the @unitednations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, by the year 2030, and that with the current climate projections, the world will face some 560 disasters per year.
An additional estimated 37.6 million people will be living in conditions of extreme poverty due to the impacts of #climatechange and #disasters by 2030. Furthermore, with the “worst case” scenario of climate change, disasters will push an additional 100.7 million into poverty by 2030.
Disaster risk grows with #poverty, #inequality and #discrimination
We can curb the destructive power of #hazards - in other words, stop them from turning into #disasters - through careful and coordinated planning that is designed to reduce people’s exposure and vulnerability to harm. Greater investments are needed in the collection and use of disaggregated data, both to better understand disproportionate disaster.
Let's all work together to raise awareness and help spread the message !
@europeancommission@euincy@europeanparliament@eu_echo@europeanunicy
The Full-Scale Exercise of #ProjectHope was completed with great success!
The aim of the project is to improve civil protection preparedness and response capabilities of #armenia in dealing with large, complex disasters that require joint response coordination facilitated via the Union Civil Protection Mechanism #UCPM and #INSARAG.
Mr. Evangelos Katsaros is the Project Manager of #ProjectHOPE and acted as the Evaluator of Exercise Control (#EXCON)
Dr. Christos Dimopoulos is the Head Evaluator of #ProjectHOPE. He managed the 16-member team of Evaluators and simultaneously assessed the use of ICT Tools (including VOSOCC and ICMS) during the the Exercise
Mr. Pierantonios Papazoglou @pierantoniospapazoglou acted as the Evaluator of #health & #safety of First Responders during the implementation of the Exercise
Professor @geobous George Boustras (@cerides_coe Director @europeanunicy ) is an invited member of the #VIP Program of the Exercise
Ms Georgia Solomonidou @solomonidougeo will act as CERIDES #dissemination Officer during the Exercise
Also participating remotely, Mr. Costas Constantinou @costiscon acted as CERIDES #Dissemination Manager during the Exercise.
The HOPE FSX Project is funded by the @eu_echo ΕU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid @europeancommission European Commission through the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (Call: UCPM-2021-EXT). CERIDES - Centre of Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences acts as the Coordinating Organisation for this project.
