Support to Emergencies and Humanitarian Aid services target three main application domains:

• Civil Protection: National Civil Protection Services of Europe, DG ENV (European CP Unit), and more globally all risk management actors in Europe at different territorial scales
• Humanitarian Aid: DG RELEX, DG ECHO, NGOs
• Security crises: European Council, Member States

It addresses all types of disasters: natural disasters (floods, fires, landslides, storms, earthquakes, etc.), technological accidents, humanitarian crises (for instance after a severe drought period), civilian-military crises. Read more…

Pre-operational services for Crisis management support have been developed by the GMES Service Element for Humanitarian Relief - RESPOND and the GMES Service Element for Civil Protection – RISK-EOS.

Additionally further work in the Civil Protection domain is being carried out under the 6th Framework Programme project PREVIEW.

More information available at:

PREVIEW RISK

RISK-EOS

RESPOND

BOSS4GMES

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