STRUCTURE |
The Centre is accommodated and run its activities
at the Cyprus Civil Defense Headquarters. Most of its activities
are carried out in cooperation with Cyprus Civil Defence. The
administration of the Center is based on the Management Committee
and the Scientific Committee, which are appointed on the basis of
proposals, put forward by the Council of Europe EUR-OPA Major
Hazards Agreement.
Management Committee
Director: Mrs Maria Papa, Cyprus Civil Defence Commissioner
Members:
Andreas Frantzis, Senior Civil Defence Officer
George Gerosimou, Senior Civil Defence Officer
Marinos Papadopoulos, Civil Defence Officer A
Kyriakos Hatzigeorgiou, Civil Defence Officer A
Eleftherios Eleftheriou, Administrative Officer A, Ministry of Interior
Argyris
Alexandrou, Civil Defence Officer
President of the Scientific Committee:
Argyris
Alexandrou
European Centre for
Disaster Awareness with the use of the Internet, Cyprus.
Francesc Pla, European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement EUR-OPA,
Council of Europe
Fattoum Lakhdari, Scientific and Technical Research Centre on Arid Regions
(CRSTRA, Biskra, Algeria)
Kolio P. Kolev, European Center for Risk Prevention (ECRP, Sofia Bulgaria)
Armando Mauro, National Institute “Stop Disaster” Italy
Anton Micallef, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics
(ICoD, Valletta, Malta)
Victor Poyarkov, European Centre of Technological Safety (TESEC, Kiev,
Ukraine)
Olivier Maquaire, European Centre for Seismic and Geomorphological Hazards
(CERG, Strasbourg, France)
Doriano Castaldini, Earth Sciences Department of the Faculty of Sciences
of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, Italy
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OBJECTIVES
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The objective is the development of an organized
Network among countries, in first step at school level, with the use
of the Internet, aiming at the provision of information and
knowledge to groups of people, for prevention, preparedness,
immediate reaction and rehabilitation for risks and disasters. |
MAIN ACTIVITIES
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The Centre, carries out activities
relating to the preparation of the specification of the Website
"BeSafeNet"and
the administrative arrangements for the various functions of the
Centre.
The specifications of the Site, respond to a state to art
portal Internet Site. The future activities of the Centre, will be focus
to supplement the Network with all the official languages of the
Council of Europe, Italian, Bulgarian and Greek language, the
enrichment of the Site and the promotion of the project especially
to young people and schools. |
NETWORK OF SPECIALISED
EURO-MEDITERRANEAN CENTRES