- Profound Exercise

Objectives

Flood response activities in the Danube Region are greatly supported by water rescue NGOs and volunteer fire brigades. These volunteer organizations have been working together side by side fighting floods and emergencies. Their cooperation with...

Profound partnership

Profound Exercise is shaped by the close cooperation of volunteer fire brigades and water rescue teams. During the execution of the project fire brigades are responsible for flood protection activities, water rescue organizations conduct the...

Lessons Learnt

Summary of the evaluations and recommendations for further development.

The project is aimed to improve the cooperation between non-governmental response capacities involved in flood response in the Danube Region, with establishing and exercising a common framework for training and deploying in synergy with the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.

News & Events

Dissemination Conference of Profound To Present Further Cooperations

The last Annual Practitioners Forum of the DARENet (Danube River Region Resilience Exchange network) project and the Dissemination Conference of PROFOUND (Procedures of Rescue Organizations in Flood Operations Unified in the Danube Region) project with the EU Strategy for the...

Planning meeting and training focusing on UCPM and macro-regional aspects of upcoming exercise

3rd Planning Meeting & Introduction Training | Csép Meeting and training served for participants to overview the fundamentals of international disaster response and the framework of EU Civil Protection Mechanism focusing on the specifics of Profound Exercise. Topics covered in...

Next planning meeting to check exercise locations near Dunaújváros

2nd Planning meeting | Dunaújváros According to the regional risk analyses, simultaneous flood on both river Danube and Tisa is a worst-case scenario, as it would need to mobilize response assets on a never-seen scale. Profound exercise aims to simulate...

Experts discuss past events and former floods to develop exercise scenarios

1st Planning meeting | Dunaújváros The aim of any multiple location exercise is to recreate the complexity of emergency situations. Planning of Profound Exercise continued with the overview of real-life flood scenarios in the planned locations along Danube, Somes and...