Simulation exercises organised at Community level are designed primarily as field tests aiming mainly at establishing a common understanding of the cooperation in civil protection assistance interventions and to  improve the quality of the response in major emergencies.

The activities intended to be co-financed under this call for proposals are:

• Full scale civil protection exercises with a command post part, involving intervention teams
• Full scale civil protection exercises with command post part, involving civil protection modules and/or technical assistance and support teams defined in the recast and in the implementing rules on modules
• Command post exercises.

Exercises need to be based on the provisions of the Community Civil Protection Mechanism.

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

• 5,47 Million EUR (Annual budget for 2008)

• 15 May 2008 - 15 years ago (Deadline for the presentation of proposals)

• Civil Protection Simulation Exercises Call for Proposal (Legal base)

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

• Public authorities (all)
• Enterprises

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

• European Union (EU)

Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security

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