Description (EN): The project is a joint initiative of five Partners, Odoreu commune (Lead Partner), the Volunteer Firefighters Association from Tyukod (Hungary), respectively Halmeu, Viile Satu Mare and Paulesti communes, which plan for a long term working relationship. Thus, the project is based on a strong partnership on the two sides of the border. The partners are being supported by other local public authorities that signed cooperation agreements with the project partners and also by the Satu Mare County Council.
The partnership consists of partners that complement each other. The importance of the cross-border approach to the topic addressed is clearly demonstrated through the fulfillment of the 4 cooperation criteria: joint development, joint implementation, joint staffing and joint financing.
The partnership covers the needed professional competence and relevant project management experience for the successful project implementation. Partners have acquired relevant experience in the thematic field concerned, and they also possess the financial and human resources capacity necessary for project implementation. Moreover, as a fundamental part of a well-functioning project, the Steering Committee will actively support the successful project implementation through a continuous overview of project progress and adopting key decisions as many times needed.
Project partners have attributions in the management of emergency situations, and all the intervention forces are volunteers. Even if there are several laws regulating their activity on both sides of the border, there is a stringent issue governing upon the voluntary services from both Romania and Hungary, and this is the lack of proper equipment. Volunteers are trained to act, but do not have the appropriate means and equipment to intervene. However, in cross-border context there is a need for a coordinated approach giving the volunteers the chance to work and train together, as well as to share experiences and best practices, issues that the proposed project is jointly tackling.
The project main overall objective is promoting cross-border investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems through the establishment of a „CROSS-BORDER INTEGRATED MONITORING, RISK PREVENTION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT CENTRE”. It is perfectly in line with the programme priority specific objective.
The Programme document of the Interreg V-A Romania-Hungary Programme for 2014-2020 is emphasizing that coordinated preventive actions and infrastructure need to be in place to preferably prevent, or efficiently respond to disaster situations. By contributing to the joint development of the emergency response and disaster management capacity also by the establishment of the formerly mentioned new centre, and thus to the improvement of the quality of joint risk management in the cross-border area, the improved (quality) services and better safeguard of population can be considered the main results of the project.
The newly established integrated monitoring, risk prevention and disaster management centre will assure a suitable background for communication among the partners, organizing trainings, exchanging experiences and establishing good practices. It will provide the informational support necessary to the decision factors through the collection and distribution of the emergency information and their effects, coordinating interventions, monitoring situations and drafting common trainings and applications, coordinating plans and standard operational procedures for each type of situation.
Consequently, by establishing and functioning of this centre and the endowment of voluntary services with reliable, high quality equipment the project will be facilitating improved cross-border disasters and risk management, aiming to improve the infrastructural, equipment and human conditions of the institutions involved in emergency response activities from Satu Mare and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties.
The project is bringing new innovative elements in the operational cooperation and improved emergency response communication among the emergency response authorities from the cross-border area by bringing them together with a significant number of voluntary organizations in order to make use of their practices and share their experience for facilitating harmonized interventions in case of emergency situations and reducing response time, especially in the immediate neighborhood of the border.
The partners are planning for organizing a series of joint trainings and practices, and awareness raising events. All the proposed activities are implemented jointly, on both sides of the border. Moreover, members of the voluntary services from the neighboring localities and also professional emergency response institutions will be invited to take part in the planned activities.
The project also proposes the organization of an „Awareness raising campaign” on emergency situations, with a series of presentations in schools and city halls on civil protection measures, useful information in case of emergency situations, and distribution of fliers, thus contributing to an increased level of information and awareness of the population living in the cross-border area.
The estimated number of people benefiting from improved emergency response services, respectively the population safeguarded by improved emergency response services is 75.160 persons, from the Romanian-Hungarian (-Ukrainian) cross-border area. (Details in the annexed Opportunity Study.)
By bringing new elements to the development opportunities in the area, offering increased security against environmental and man-made risks and contributing to the joint development of the emergency response and disaster management capacity in the cross-border area the proposed project ensures a relevant contribution to the Programme objectives.
The project is also perfectly in line with relevant European legislation in the field of risk-prevention and disaster management that is a basic condition for its successful implementation. In the same time, the project contributes to wider strategies on more
policy levels (EU/national/regional/county), also being in synergy with other key interventions.
It is also making a positive contribution to the programme horizontal principles: equal opportunities and non-discrimination, equality between men and women, sustainable development.
Consequently, the JOINTRESCUE project addressing risk assessment and enhancement of joint preparadness and joint efficiency of action in emergencies, safeguarding a population of more than 75000 inhabitants by improved emergency response services, will be contributing to the increased rate of preparedness and improved quality of joint risk management, and thus to the achievement of the expected outcome of the program.
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1) Better protection in case of fire for civil population, through the acquisition of 5 equiped fire engines, serving the inhabitants from 16 localities from Tyukod-Mátészalka area (Hungary) and the Communes of Odoreu, Paulesti, Viile and Halmeu (Satu-Mare County, Romania).
2) Population from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Satu-Mare Counties better informed about the civil protection measures and the interventions in case of disasters, as a result of the 35 awarness campaigns organised in schools and city halls.
3) 1 best practice model developed, related to the intervention in case of an ecological accident, to be applied in the Halmeu-Diakovo area (Romania-Ukraine).
Finalized:
1) 3 Simulations of intervention in case of technological, ecological and road accidents were organized , in order to be shared professional experiences among the firefighters from the Voluntary Services for Emergency Situations from all the 5 communes ;
2) 35 awarness campaigns on civil protection measures were organized in schools and city halls;
3) Creation of a Best practice model on intervention in case of a forest fire;
4) 1 First aid training for 30 persons;
5) Purchase of 5 fire engines and related equipment for the 5 Voluntary Services for Emergency Situations located in each commune involved in the project.
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Expected Outputs (EN): By contributing to the joint development of the emergency response and disaster management capacity also by the establishment of a new „CROSS-BORDER INTEGRATED MONITORING, RISK PREVENTION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT CENTRE”, and thus to the improvement of the quality of joint risk management in the cross-border area, the improved (quality) services and better safeguard of population can be considered the main results of the project.
The project is bringing new innovative elements in the operational cooperation and improved emergency response communication among the emergency response authorities from the cross-border area by bringing them together with a significant number of voluntary organizations in order to make use of their practices and share their experience for facilitating harmonized interventions in case of emergency situations and reducing response time, especially in the immediate neighborhood of the border.
The estimated number of people benefiting from improved emergency response services, respectively the population safeguarded by improved emergency response services is 75.160 persons, from the Romanian-Hungarian (-Ukrainian) cross-border area, a significant share of the population living in Satu Mare and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties.
Consequently, the implementation of the proposed project will be contributing to an increased rate of preparedness and the achievement of the expected outcome (result indicators) of the program for the Investment Priority 5/b.
Moreover, taking into consideration the proposed joint activities bringing together people from both sides of the border, the project is also showing synergies with IP 11/b “Promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens and institutions” of the Programme, thus contributing to the achievement of the output indicator "Number of people participating in cross-border cooperation initiatives” and also of the result indicator “Intensity of cross-border cooperation".
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