Other activities

Hellenic Rescue Team, along with other 28 European partners, 4 of which are from Greece, is participating in the project “Search and Rescue”, which is led by the National Technical University of Athens and is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Hellenic Rescue Team, along with 15 partners from Greece, Europe and South Korea, participates in the European project PathoCERT (Pathogen Contamination Emergency Response Technologies)

Forest fires are exacerbated by extreme weather conditions, which are increasing both in frequency and in magnitude due to climate change effects. Globally, massive fires have swept through forests and other landscapes in an alarming rate, resulting in the loss of human lives, destruction of homes and biodiversity, and emitting millions of tons of CO2 together with other pollutants in addition to other destructive impacts.

After 14 days of a solitary march on the mountain of the gods, Mount Olympus, the volunteer of the NGO Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT), Lorenzo Nerantzis, completed the Olympus 12 Refuge Trail, a hiking effort that took place for the first time in Greece

On September 22, Lorenzo Nerantzis, a volunteer of the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) from Thessaloniki, will attempt something that happens for the first time in Greece.

An RS (Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue - Redningsselskapet) delegation visited between the 23rd and the 30th of September the HRT branches in Volos, Corfu and Irakleio.

The overall objective of the project is to improve the strategic and operational efficiency of public administration and public services in managing natural disasters within the wider cross-border area

They met with HRT Samos volunteers and were briefed about their rescue work, especially in the sea

HRT is awarded for its rescue work at sea during the refugee crisis in Greece

Lions Norway financially supported HRT Lesvos, Kos, Magnisia and Corfu

The UNHCR decided to support the station of the Hellenic Rescue Team in Chios with a donation of 1.000 euro

The Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) and Efi Latsoudi, the human rights activist behind “PIKPA village” in Lesvos, will be awarded this year's NANSEN Refugee Award by the UNHCR

«CHIARA» is the name of the new search and rescue boat of Hellenic Rescue Team, which will operate in the area of ??Kos.

Since February, boat Minden of Die Seenotretter – DGzRS in collaboration with Hellenic Rescue Team engaging Search and Rescue missions in Lesbos Island.

The Hellenic Rescue Team's readiness base in Chios will be fully operative and ready to assist Greek Authorities in Search and Rescue missions with two new rescue boats

Rescue organizations, members of the International Maritime Rescue Federation are proceeding In an organized movement supporting the Hellenic Rescue Team

The British rescue organization Royal National Lifeboat Institution, donated rescue equipment which will be used for search and rescue at Aegean sea.

The effort of the Hellenic Rescue Team of Lesvos to help with love packages to needy families on the island, was strengthened by the Norwegian Organization for sea rescue, RS

Two modern rescue boats from the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, have strengthened the capacity of HRT Samos, in order to prevent loss of human lives

The Hellenic rescue team organised the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid to refugees in the border of the Greek-Skopian area.