IRMA

The “European congress on Disaster Management” is a Conference of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), the federal Technical Relief Agency (THW) and the newspaper Behörden Spiegel. The Conference has developed itself since its first meeting in 2005 to an important date in the calendars of the European institutions, which are responsible for civil protection and disaster management. Apart from European institutions delegations from all regions of the world participate in the conference - in 2007 altogether 1,147 participants from 47 nations came to Bonn, to discuss “European Strategies and Perspectives for the Disaster Management”. The two-day congress is divided into a main programme with four key topics, supported by international experts from Ministries, the European Commission, Disaster Management Authorities as well as the leadership of international Industries and is completed by ten Panel Sessions. In these specialized forums national and European Parliamentarians, Heads of Units, Response Forces and representatives from Industries take part in.