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Starting with the 12/16 newsletter, SAM.I. members will receive updates on EU funding put together by the General Secretariat.
From 6-8 June 2016, the partners of INDRIX (Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index) met in Bolzano, Italy for their second meeting.
Today, on 26 February 2016, SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL (SAM.I.) is launching a social media photo series as part of its motto year “When Numbers Become Faces”.
On 26 January, the EU-financed SAMETS project held its final conference in Brussels. They presented their guidelines on working with groups with special needs in emergency shelters.
On 20 January, the new round of EU financed civil protection projects was kicked off in Brussels. Several Samaritan organisations are involved in the project INDRIX, which will develop an inclusive index to assess resilience.
From 18-20 November 2015, the project partners of the ADAPT project met in Saponara, Sicily, to continue the conceptualisation of a data platform to improve the support of vulnerable people in case of emergency evacuations.
About 500.000 refugees entered the EU over the Balkan route in 2015. Thousands of employees and hundreds of thousands of volunteers of the Samaritan organisations render aid to refugees along their way across Europe.
On 29 September 2015, Samaritan organisations from 10 countries conducted flash mobs to raise awareness for the importance of first aid training among young people.
About 200 participants from ten countries convened at the SAMARITAN Forum in Bolzano from 28th to 29th of August 2015.
On 27th April 2015, the ADAPT project partners met in Berlin to discuss the improvement of disaster evacuation for people with disabilities.
