First EURORISK user training session

The first training session for European EURORISK users took place on 16 and 17 October 2007 in the DDSC's (French Civil Protection Agency) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sapeurs Pompiers (ENSOP - National Fire Service College) in Aix-les-Milles (France).

“EURORISK Services” represent a range of services developed in the context of the European PREVIEW and RISKEOS projects* for the prevention, forecasting and management of natural (fires, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, landslides) and industrial risks.
Dedicated to civil protection – and more generally to those involved in risk management - these services are developed with a group of European partners, coordinated by Infoterra France.

The aim of this training, which is only the first stage of a complete training programme devised and implemented by the DDSC, is to enable users, beyond technical developments, to fully adopt these new services in such a way that they become an operational reality, completely integrated into the user’s work process.

This first session was a real success, with all participants – representing 14 client organisations from all over Europe: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden – having expressed great satisfaction with the training.

Two new sessions have already been scheduled for the coming months, starting with one in March 2008.