One of the keynote speakers at the DRIVER+ Advanced Crisis Management Conference, held in Brussels in February 2020, was Patrick Meier, co-founder and joint CEO of WeRobotics/Flying Labs. Flying Labs is a growing network of highly trained drone operators based around...

The Commission offered up to €80 million of financial support to CureVac, a higly innovative vaccine developer from Tübingen, Germany, to scale up development and production of a vaccine against the Coronavirus in Europe. Read more here Source: EU Science and...

UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) publicises DRIVER+ benefits and outputs . Read the full article here

The toolkit provides organisations interested in becoming a DRIVER+ Centre of Expertise (CoE) with guiding tools they can use to develop a roadmap customised to their case. In particular, this toolkit proposes to follow a process based on three stages: Orienting &...

The dashboard, built by a team at the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering and regularly updated with data from the WHO, CDC, and other sources, illustrates how the virus is spreading in China and beyond. More information can be found here Image...

The European Commission is coordinating a common European response to the outbreak of COVID-19. They are taking resolute action to reinforce  public health sectors and mitigate the socio-economic impact in the European Union.They are mobilising all means at their...

The Inter Agency Standing Committee Reference Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings  IASC MHPSS RG is creating a book to share with children during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The purpose of the book is to help children talk about and cope...

The DRIVER+ Training Module gives you training and practice how to best organise your own Trial. It contains both e-learning and face-to-face workshops about the Trial Guidance Methodology and its supportive tools and methods. The e-lecture videos can be seen here. To...

A dedicated website was launched on which you can learn more about the trial guidance methodology which provides step-by-step guidelines, a list of roles and responsibilities, tools and methods to perform a trial through a clear, structured and co-creative approach....

The Report covers all key outputs of the DRIVER+ project, offering guidance, resources and support for Crisis Managers throughout Europe and the world. Download it here.

Todor Tagarev, the CMINE head chair, and the floods and volunteer management chairs gave one to one interviews at the Danish Red Cross recently. Hear what they had to say about the role of CMINE and why getting involved is so important for all Crisis Management...