Thursday, 20th February 2020

10:00h    Building a Strong European Crisis Management Community- The Portfolio                 of Solutions and the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe                           (CMINE)

                        Establishing strategies for  building, reinforcing and sustaining the momentum                                                established for the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe (CMINE) and the                                            Portfolio of Solutions

Chair: Albrecht Beck, Prepared International

With: Harald Drager, The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS)

Harm Bastian Harms, Johanniter

Todor Tagarev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/DRIVER+

Further panellists to be confirmed

11:45h     Adopting DRIVER+ Solutions- The Centre of Expertise (CoE) Network

Discussing how Centres of Expertise can be recruited and supported to boost pan-European crisis management skills

Chair: Brigitte Slot, Ecorys

With: Jon Hall, Resilience Advisors Network (RAN)

Anna Kobierzycka, Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (SRC PAS)

Christian Resch, Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA)

Thomas Seltsam, Austrian Red Cross (ARC)