On January 20th, KEMEA invited emergency response organisations across Greece to discuss their specific needs for mobile, low-emission, reliable, and self-sufficient power solutions for emergency response operations.
Participants were as follows:
- Hellenic Police – 3 different Directorates
- Attica Prefecture, Civil Protection Directorate
- Hellenic Fire Service
- Hellenic Red Cross
- Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil protection, General Secretariat of Civil Protection
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum, General Secretariat of Migration Policy
The workshop featured really interesting discussions on needs for mobile energy provision, wishes and ideal solutions, challenges, SOTA available products, energy requirements per person and service provided.
Experiences came mainly from Fire Brigade’s deployment within UCPM during the earthquake emergencies of Albania (2019) and Turkey (2023), the deployment and management of migrant and refugee camps (acknowledging the similarities and different requirements of long-term camps), the technical specifications and operation of a mobile Operations Centre of the Police.
A short session on innovation public procurement raised lots of interest and questions and allowed participants to get acquainted with knowledge to share with their organizations for their future engagement in PCP/PPI activities.
We wish to thank all participants for their active contribution to needs identification for our project as well as for their interest in further learning about our follow up activities.