In the past few months, five partners of the SEE project conducted another round of town hall meetings to discuss disaster preparedness and volunteering in emergencies with citizens and stakeholders. The basis for discussion were the concepts for joint voluntary action of formal and informal volunteers in emergencies. These concepts outline how spontaneous volunteers, i.e. […]

Between April and May 2025, the project partners of SEE conducted the first round of participatory town hall meetings to discuss volunteering and disaster risk reduction with people from the local communities. For each participating country, an operative partner organisation had beforehand picked a model municipality with a concrete risk of natural disaster to address […]

The project held its first event from 23-24 November 2024 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Experts from different project partners prepared organised volunteers for the upcoming town hall meeting process, by teaching about a toolkit for participatory methods and communication. Preparing the already active citizens, i.e. trained and qualified volunteers who are already committed to an organisation, […]