NARPIMED – NAtural Risk Prevention
In MEDiterranean Countries
During the Seminar the partners disseminated the project results, such as the research related to a MANUAL FOR NATURAL RISK PREVENTION IN THE EUROMEDITERRANEAN REGION, to the target audience which consisted of Local and Regional Authorities of Attica Region (GR) including the department of Civil protection, Local NGOs, Volunteers of Civil protection teams, Fire Brigade staff members, National Foundations, Local Associations, Universities and academic researchers, Rescue teams of Greek red Cross, etc.
This seminar was attended by more than 50 participants from 4 Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey). A representative of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of the Republic of Turkey attended this event as guest speaker.
In 2 technical sessions, almost 20 power point presentations were presented.
In addition there were almost 10 posters that were placed in the Municipality premises.
Proceedings and Presentations will be made available on the Narpimed web site as soon as possible.
The partners of Narpimed project would like to thank the Municipality of Kalivia for the warm hospitality shown by the staff members and all those who helped the whole project consortium with the organization of this final project event.
Partners and participants reiterate their interest and special willingness to build a real sustainability of the project and therefore to
- continue the cooperation after the end of the EU funding related to Narpimed project;
- promote the planning of new collaborative projects between Narpimed consortium members and new associated organisms;
- promote the project to stakeholders by Internet, as well as appropriate dissemination of project information to selected officials or decision-makers, for example the Operational Manual for risk prevention, the project newsletter and other articles.
At the end of the seminar and the day after (September 24th 2010), the partners and participants attended a really successful Simulation exercise which took place at the Municipality of Kalivia Premises. Additional information on that event will be made available on the web site soon including pictures.
The particularity of the three days of events is the Simulation exercise which involves different levels of the Greek civil protection staff and the Regional and local authorities.
Download here the Poster
Download here the Minutes of the “Final Conference of Khalivia” and “Final Steering Committee meeting” of Narpimed project.
The presentations that were given at the conference of Granada are available for downloading:
JOINT LAUNCH CONFERENCE of Granada 17th February 2009, Granada.
Giuseppe Antonio Giarrusso Region of Molise, ITALY, Civil protection Unit.
Seismic Risk Prevention in Italy:
Ing. Giandomenico Cifani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione, ITALY.
The results of the first thematic workshop:
Prof. Francisco Vidal, Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica. Universidad de Granada, SPAIN. [Download here.]
Seismic Risk assessment in Andalusian Region (Southern Spain) for Regional Earthquake Emergence Planning:
Prof. Francisco Vidal, Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica. Universidad de Granada, SPAIN. [Download here]
Fire risk prevention in Greece:
Ms. Eleni Rapti Kalivia Thorikou Attika, GREECE. [Download here]
Project FIRE. Effects on the Spanish Emergency Military Unit
LTC Jorge Serra. Liaison Officer, UME Headquarters. [Download here]
Volcanic Risk at Canary Islands:
Prof. Jesus Ibañez, Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica. Universidad de Granada, SPAIN. [Download here]
Omportement des matériaux ductile a sollicitation multiple
Prof. Djebri Boualem (Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme d’Alger, Algeria) [Download here]
Seismic Hazard Assessment in North Africa
Prof. Taoufik Murabit (Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Tanger, Morocco). [Download here]
Overview of European Funding Opportunities for Natural Risk Prevention:
Mr. Alessandro Pernice (EU projects consultant, HERIMED, ITALY). [Download here]
Training Presentations
“Good practices, methods and procedures to avoid or reduce natural disasters in the Mediterranean Countries”.
The training course took place in Granada on June 28, 2010.
The number of attendants have been 98 (of the 106 initially enrolled) added to the participation of the 21 teachers of the course.
The participants belong to the eight provinces of Andalusia and Murcia, mostly belonging to Emergency Services (Civil Protection provincial managers, technicians of County Councils, 112 technicians, firemen and wildfire fire-fighters, Civil Protection responsible of municipalities, as well as regional and national leaders and representatives of Civil Protection).
We have managed to convey a cleared and structured valuable information to Civil Protection technicians to implement the overall and strategic objectives initially set:
The overall objective: to contribute to reinforce the quality of Civil Protection services in the Euro-Mediterranean region and to continue institutional cooperation in the field, between the EU and the Mediterranean Partners Countries (MPCs).
The strategic objective: to promote the coherence among the different civil protection actions undertaken at national and international level, reinforcing the cooperation with some Mediterranean countries, such as Algeria, Turkey and Morocco (European added value).
We believe that the main objective has been achieved:
offer to the participants the opportunity to share good practices, methods and procedures in order to avoid or reduce natural disasters in the Mediterranean Countries.
The Power Point presentations that were given at the 2nd Intensive Training Course of Granada are available for downloading here
1st day: Natural Risk Prevention in Europe: Good practices, methods and procedures.
First day activities (in the morning) day
1. Prof. F. Vidal- Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS- UGR) Universidad de Granada (ES), “Natural Risk Prevention and Civil Protection, From disaster-driven to prevention of risk “
[Download here]
2. Prof. LLuis Pujades- Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) (ES), “Former, recent and ongoing projects on earthquake risk assessment Applications to Barcelona City (Spain)”
[Download here]
3. Engs. G. Cifani , G. Petrucci & Dr. A. Petracca- Istituto per le Tecnologie della Ricostruzione ITC , Sede L’Aquila (Italy) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR (IT), “Guidelines for the Manual for risk prevention in the Mediterranean Countries”
[Download here]
4. Prof B.Benito -Polytechnic University of Madrid Earthquake Engineering Group-UPM (ES), ”Methodology for Earthquake Risk Scenarios definition focused to Emergency Planning”
[Download here]
5. Prof. K. Fattoum & BENOUAR Djillali Houari Boumediene -University (HBU) Civil Engineering Faculty (AL), ”Seismic Hasards and Risk Prevention in Algeria. The progress achieved since 1980”
[Download here]
6. Arch. A. Lemme, Civil protection Region of Molise (CP-RM) (IT), “Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of the Cultural Heritage: the case of the April 6, 2009, Abruzzo earthquake”
[Download here]
First day activities (in the afternoon) day activities (in the afternoon)
1. Prof. M. C. Romero -University of La Laguna (ULL) (ES), “Volcanic and Seismic Risk for Emergency Planning in Canary Island”
[Download here]
2.Ing. Lemme – Civil protection Region of Molise Cnr-Itc, (CP-RM) (IT), ” Heartquake Molise 2002, Municipality of Ripabottoni, integrated sismic risk analisys”
[Download here]
2nd day: Civil Protection and Disaster Prevention
Second day activities (in the morning)
1.Profs. G. Alguacil & F -Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS- UGR), “Monitoring, early warning, and earthquake damage blind prediction systems”.
[Download here]
2. Prof. M Navarro -University of Almeria (UAL) (ES), “A practical tool for management and reduction of urban seismic risk”
[Download here]
3. Mr. V. Medrano -Civil protection Region of Andalusia. (CP-JA) (ES), “La planificación ante el riesgo sísmico en Andalucía: estrategia, organización y procedimientos”
[Download here]
4. Eng. S. Çilingir-Prime Ministry Disaster & Emergency Management Presidency (PM-DEMP) (TUR) ,” Disaster and emergency management structure and natural risk prevention studies in Turkey”
[Download here]
5. T. Col. Jorge Serra -Spanish Military Unit (UME) (SP)” Emergency Military Unit, “ Intervention in Haïti. How we work in response to earthquake disasters”
[Download here]
6. Mr. F. Sánchez -Reyes Jefe de Grupo de Rescate CB-GR (ES), “Rescuing earthquake victims Recent experiences of Granada fire-fighter Team”
[Download here]
7. Mr. A. Pernice -HERIMED (IT), “New financial perspectives for Civil protection actions (2007- 2013)”
[Download here]
Second day activities (in the afternoon)
1. Eng. U. Capriglione -Civil protection Region of Molise (CP-RM) (IT), “Prevention and Response to FIRE RISK ”
[Download here]
2. Engs. J. Martínez & D. Ayllón -Andalusia Enviroment Agency (AMA) “Prevention and extinction of wildfires in Andalusia. Analysis of risk and operative capacity”
[Download here A][Download here B]
3. Mr. G. Sofronis & E. Rapti -Municipality of Khalivia Thorikou (MKT)( GR), ”Civil Protection Mechanism Activated for Fire Risk Prevention in Municipality of Kalivia Thorikou (Greece)”
[Download here]
Minutes of the Narpimed Steering Committee Meeting and 2nd project seminar and Outcomes of the 2nd Intensive Training Course. Granada, June 28-30, 2010.
[Download here]
A brochure of the event is available.
[Download here]
“Good practices, methods and procedures to avoid or reduce natural disasters in the Mediterranean Countries”.
The 1st Training program for those in charge at civil protection centres and Local Community Representatives is one of the project tasks related to Work package 2 “EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES: 01.11.2008 – 06.06.2010” and ACTION B.4 of NARPIMED project.
The 1st intensive training course took place in S.Agata Li Battiati, on 29th March 2010.
The training was organised by HERIMED (Italy) in cooperation with The Regional Department of the Civil protection Service of Catania (Italy) and the NARPIMED Working Group: Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica. Universidad de Granada (Spain), Region of Molise, CNR –ITC of L’Aquila and HERIMED (Italy) Municipality of Kalivia Thorikou (Greece).
The Foreign Relations Coordinatorship of the Disaster and Emergency Management Unit of the Turkish Republic attended the training as guest speaker.
The training content focused on Civil Protection regulatory systems and governance in the four project participating countries, on techniques and methods for risk monitoring, prevention and mitigation including emergency planning and management.
Among the expected results of the training workshop, at the end of the three days, the trainees were able to compare the characteristics and the mechanisms of the Italian, Spanish and Greek civil protection systems in view of better planning the development of civil protection action programs at national, regional and local level in their country.
35 Trainees received the certificates of attendance.[Download here]
Press releases regarding the training are available for downloading:
Civil protection experts from Italy and other Mediterranean Countries visited Santa Venerina Municipality and all local cultural heritage sites damaged by 2002 Earthquake.
News dated: 1/04/2010 edited by Giovanna Mazza – Communication referent [Download here]
European Seminar of NARPIMED project in Catania
News dated: 31/03/2010 edited by Gaetano Russo – Communication referent [Download here]
“Tecnici a scuola di emergenza” / Emergency Technicians at School
News dated: 3rd of April 2010 – La Sicilia (page 46) [Download here]
NARPIMED training course on natural risk Written by Alessandro Candeloro
Monday, 29 March 2010 [Download here]
The Power Point presentations that were given at the 1st intensive Training course are available for downloading here. We apologize for the inconvenience, as the English language of some of these presentations is not currently available. We expect it to become available within the next coming months.
1st day: Natural Risk Prevention Mediterranean Countries
Prof. Francisco Vidal Sánchez, Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS), UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA (ES) [Download here]
EU Natural Risk Prevention framework. National and European strategies and priority actions on prevention and disaster risk reduction
Prof. Francisco Vidal Sánchez, Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS), UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA (ES) [Download here]
The Earthquake of April 6, 2009: from the emergency to the reconstruction phase
Alberto Lemme, Region Molise – Civil Protection and Reconstruction Unit
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR –ITC), “Technologies Construction Institute”, “National Research Council ” – L’Aquila (IT) [Download here]
Monitoring, early warning, and earthquake damage blind prediction systems
Prof. Francisco Vidal Sánchez, Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS), UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA (ES) [Download here]
The PPRD South Programme
Mr. Pierluigi Soddu, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile di Roma (IT) – Civil Protection Department of Rome. [Download here]
GIS for Civil Protection, Formidable & EGERIS initiatives
Ms. Maria Giovanna Martini, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile di Roma (IT) – Civil Protection Department of Rome. [Download here]
2nd day: Good practices, methods and procedures to reduce Natural Risk in Europe.
Dr. Antonio Torrisi, Civil Protection Regional Department – Sicily Region – Civil Protection Regional Service for the Province of Catania (IT),
A multidisciplinary approach to estimate the local seismic hazard: an application to Acireale (Sicily)
Prof. Stefano Gresta, CRIBECUM, University of Catania (IT) [Download here]
Post-earthquake building safety assessment. Recent experiences:
Prof. Francisco Vidal Sánchez, Andalusian Institute of Geophysics and Earthquake Disaster Prevention (IAGPDS), UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA (ES); [Download here]
Turkey country’s approach to disaster risk reduction and mitigation processes.
Mr. Kaan AKLAR, Presidency of Disaster and Emergency Management of Turkish Republic, Coordinatorship of Foreign Relations (Turkey) [Download here]
DETERMINATION OF NATURAL HAZARD AND RISK OF KASTAMONU REGION,
Mr. Kaan AKLAR, Presidency of Disaster and Emergency Management of Turkish Republic, Coordinatorship of Foreign Relations (Turkey) [Download here]
Vulnerability and damage assessment in the monumental goods
Eng. Giandomenico Cifani, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR –ITC), “Technologies Construction Institute”, “National Research Council”- L’Aquila (IT). [Download here]
Thematic Map of Volcanic Risk of the Region of Sicily and construction of a model of investigation at local scale
Arch. Roberto Garufi, REGIONAL CENTER FOR PLANNING AND RESTORATION FOR THE SICILY REGION (IT) [Download here]
3rd day: Civil Protection and Disaster Prevention.
Eng. Giovanni Spampinato, Civil Protection Regional Department – Sicily Region – Civil Protection Regional Service for the Province of Catania (IT), Responsible Director [Download here]
The Civil protection system in Molise : organization and structure
Arch. Giuseppe Giarrusso – Civil Protection Regional Department – Molise Region – (IT), Director [Download here]
The Civil protection system in the Regions of Attika and Khalivia: organization and structure
Mr. George Sofronis, MUNICIPALITY OF KALIVIA THORIKOU (GR) [Download here][Download here]
“Professional liability, knowledge and enforcement of the seismic laws in Italy”. An example: the case of S. Giuliano di Puglia.
Mr. Mauro Chilante, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR –ITC), “Technologies Construction Institute”, “National Research Council”- L’Aquila (IT).
Fire Disaster: Planning and Management
Eng. Umberto Capriglione – REGIONE MOLISE – Civil Protection Service(IT) [Download here]
Fire Plan in the Region of South East Attica (Greece)
Mr. Barmpadimos Michail, Fire Lieutenant, Forest Protection Specialist, Markopoulo City Fire Department, Fire Plan in the Region of South East Attica (Greece) [Download here]
The National Education Program for Voluntary Act under Emergency Situations “Protect Myself and Others”. The Education of THE CIVIL PROTECTION VOLUNTEER TEAM OF MUNICIPALITY OF KALIVIA and the role of the tcloseeam in Local Society.
Ms. Eleni Rapti, MUNICIPALITY OF KALIVIA THORIKOU(GR) [Download here]