Other activities

The identification of algorithms for the early warning of natural disasters and their integration with those related to weather conditions is the aim of the European Project GOBEYOND, in which the Hellenic Rescue Team is participating.

First responders play a prominent and essential role in the everyday situations of all civil society; and among all services they provide are law enforcement, fire suppression, and emergency medical services (EMS).

Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Green Deal program and coordinated by Università Telematica Pegaso, SILVANUS project includes 49 partners from the European Union, Brazil, Indonesia, and Australia, for a period of 42 months.

RESCUER aims to design and develop a First-Responder-centered technology toolkit that will empower the next generation of First Responders (FR)

Hellenic Rescue Team, along with a multidisciplinary, international consortium of 18 partners, coordinated by the AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Technology Experience, participates in the European project MED1stMR

The volunteers of the NGO Hellenic Rescue Team now have a new portable operations center at their disposal, thanks to donations collected for the hiking project "Olympus 12 Refuge Trail."

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.