At the second Co-Resilience project workshop, partners presented an Presenting existing Action Plans for coordination the activities of the relevant response teams in case of cross-border emergency and more specially in case of cross-border fires in their regions. The meeting took place in Chisinau, Moldova, between 10-11 December 2024.
It was attended by representatives of all five partners – Istanbul Regional Forestry Directorate, Turkey, General Directorate of Fire Safety of the Republic of Moldova, Kuyalnik Municipality, Odessa Region, Ukraine, RD PBZN – Burgas and Kameno Municipality. They listened to the analyses of four experts representing each of the countries – Turkey, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, in order to start working on the summarized analysis and unified response actions in case of a cross-border fire.
Ikram Celik – Project Manager from the lead partner Istanbul Regional Forestry Directorate, who shared his direct experience of joint actions to extinguish fires along the border between Bulgaria and Turkey last summer.
During the meeting, representatives of the Regional Directorate of Fire Safety and Population Protection, Odessa, Ukraine, showed video materials from their work in recent years and the difficulties they have to deal with due to the military conflict.
Co-Resilience – Cooperation for Building Community Resilience Capacity for Forest Fires and Early Warning in the Black Sea Basin, BSB00026, is funded under the first call of the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme, co-financed by the European Union under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) and by the participating countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.
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