The CMDR COE Mobile Education and Training Team conducted a Disaster Response Operations Course at SEEBRIG HQ
Date: (15-04-2016)
A Mobile Education and Training Team (METT), comprised of CMDR Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), conducted from 11 to 13 April 2016 a Disaster Response Operations Course at South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) HQ, Larissa, Greece. Thirty five participants from SEEBRIG HQ – representatives from Albania, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia[1], Greece, Romania, and Turkey took part and successfully completed the course.
The course aim was an acquisition of basic knowledge related to disasters as phenomenon, the disaster management process and its close relation to the risk management process, as well as the main players and mechanisms in disaster response. Various topics, related to disaster theoretical foundation and disaster environment, critical infrastructure main elements, international organizations involved into disaster response operations, NATO civil emergency planning, EU civil protection mechanism, military role and tasks in disaster response operations, were discussed into the theoretical panels of the course. Numerous aspects of the disaster risk assessment as well as planning and conducting of disaster response operations and missions were trained during the team works as well.
All course learning objectives were covered and the course aim was achieved which was reflected by the course outgoing test results. Into their closing remarks, CMDR COE Team and SEEBRIG Commander expressed their will for the continuation of the fruitful cooperation and collaboration into the future.
News
The CMDR COE new approach to reducing plastic pollution.
» read moreThe CMDR COE is proud to announce that on 31st of May 2022 a meeting with representatives from The United Kingdom Embassy to Bulgaria and the United States Embassy to Bulgaria was held.
» read moreOn 31st of May, 2022, General Yaşar Güler, Commander of the Turkish Armed Forces paid an official visit to CMDR COE.
» read moreTogether with Bulgarian Diplomatic Institute (BDI) online iteration of the Crisis Management in Multilateral Frameworks (IGOs): The Role of Political/Civilian and Military Crisis Diplomacy Course
» read moreWe are proud to announce that a Note of Joining of Hungary to CMDR OOE was signed at the Headquarters of the Allied Command of Transformation.
» read moreBrigadier General Marcus Ellermann paid a visit to the CMDR COE
» read moreAnother successful iteration of the Climate Change and Security course took place from 05 to 08 April 2022 on the CMDR COE premises in Sofia, and online.
» read moreToday, 5th April, the Climate Change and Security Course began. The course is conducted under the auspicious of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), with the support of the Diplomatic Institute to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria.
» read moreOn 31 March 2022, CMDR COE celebrated its 7th Anniversary
» read moreThe hyrbid (residential and on-line) edition of the Crisis Management and Disaster Response Course was conducted in the period 21-25 Mar 2022 from the virtual studio of CMDR COE.
» read moreProductive working meeting with representatives from the Department of Energy (US DOE)
» read moreConducting Disaster Management Course via Joint Advanced Distributed Learning (JADL)
» read moreCongratulations to the freshly certified GFPs!
» read moreCMDR COE welcomes interns for its Spring intake of the 2022 Internship Programme
» read moreStrategic Decision Making for Crisis Response Operations Course, 22-26 Nov 2021
» read moreCo-sponsored by NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division
» read more