“Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management”, 9 to 14 February 2026, Ukraine
The Peace Operations Training Centre (POTC) of Slovenia’s Centre for European Perspective, organizes for the first time on Ukrainian soil, the Training entitled: “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management“.
CERIDES is honoured that CEP-POTC invited as Main Trainer our Head of Research & Strategy, Mr. Pierantonios Papazoglou, who was also the Chief-Project-Manager of SEMEDFIRE.
The training is organized in cooperation with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) – ДСНС України, and is intended for Ukrainian civil defense members and experts in the field of prevention and preparedness for natural disasters. Materializing in two editions of 3-day duration each: 9-11 February and 12-14 February 2026, the training represents a further adaptation of the programme with the same title that POTC previously delivered for Ukrainian civil protection in May 2025 in Poland. In 2026, POTC brings the training on Ukrainian soil and it addresses a total of 52 SESU experts and specialists.
The main objective of the training is to familiarise participants with an integrated; multi-hazards, multi-perspective, whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach to managing risks related to natural and other disasters, particularly in light of increasingly complex and evolving emergencies. The training focuses on potential mitigation measures to strengthen prevention and preparedness, while taking local specificities into account.
Members of the Ukrainian SESU are trained in:
understanding climate-change-exacerbated disasters and enhancing disaster preparedness (including within the Sendai Framework).
EU crisis coordination mechanisms and the new Union Preparedness Strategy.
mechanisms of collecting data, mapping, forecasting and early warning.
mechanisms for the protection of the civilian population.
risk assessment methodologies in complex environments with multiple sources of risks.
The training consists of a combination of seminar-style presentations with hands-on practical sessions, engaging the trainees interactively. One of the highlights of the third day of each edition is a customized adapted version of the simulative role-playing serious game “Pyropolis“ (EU-FarmBook, Zenodo), which was developed through the EUC-Coordinated Horizon-Europe-WIDERA-Twinning project SEMEDFIRE.
