CERIDES is happy to announce that the hybrid kick-off meeting of the DG-ECHO project PDEX (Professional Dialog Exercise) took place on Tuesday the 1st of February 2022, in Brussels, Belgium. CERIDES acts as the coordinating organisation of the project. Mr. Evangelos Katsaros, CERIDES Research Associate, and Manager of the project, physically attended the meeting and presented the planned activities to the DG-ECHO Officers. Representatives from all consortium partners attended the meeting in virtual mode.
PDEX is a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) Full Scale Exercise of particular political and societal importance for the Middle East Region. It is funded under the call UCPM-PJG. The aim of the project is to strengthen disaster preparedness in the Jordan – Israel – Palestine (JIP) region, increase interoperability, and enable Host Nation Support (HNS) and cooperation for international disaster response. The project will also support the JIP region in analysing their Civil Protection (CP) situation, and prepare a specific regional, cross border Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for a closer operational cooperation in the case of a complex emergency. The project will also train all parties in HNS and test respective measures during an FSX.
The total budget of the project is in the region of 800K Euros. The total duration is 18 months. The project consortium consists of the following members:
European University Cyprus (Cyprus) (Project Coordinator)
D.M.A.T. CONSULTING KG (Austria)
PPI – PREPARED INTERNATIONAL UG (Germany)
Resilience Solutions (Austria)
JOHANNITER-UNFALL-HILFE EV (Germany)
Ministry of Interior / Civil Defense (Cyprus)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cyprus)