Under the umbrella of the DAREnet project, co-organised by the Croatian Ministry of Interior, Civil Protection Directorate and RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation, on the 28th of September 2021, the Workshop entitled: „Strengthening Resilience and Capacities of Flood Protection and Response Stakeholders – Good Practices and Development“ was organised. Topics were divided in three groups: Civil protection training, procedures and methods; Information sharing/digitalization; Water governance. Panel discussions on the first day of the event were followed on the 2nd day (29 September 2021) by the field (demonstration) exercise with operational forces involved in flood response (State Civil Protection Intervention Unit, Croatian Red Cross, Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, local Voluntary Firefighters and local Emergency Service). Exercise scenario was the rupture of the embankment caused by a large water wave, and the aim was to demonstrate standard operating procedures, verify mutual cooperation and coordination of stakeholders, as well as the exchange of relevant information. Alongside with demonstration exercise, exhibition of flood defence equipment was held.
The event was an opportunity to gather and exchange the knowledge and best practices of prone flood regions Danube and Sava River Basins as one of DAREnet’s project efforts. Beside DAREnet consortium partners in this hybrid format event, there was around 50 participants from State Administrations, Operational Civil Protection Forces, Institutes and Associations of Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia.