📅 Implementation: Mar 17, 2025 – Mar 16, 2027 (24 months) 
💶 Total Budget: €791,003.52 | ERDF Contribution: €632,802.81
🤝 Partners: 2 institutions 
🎯 Type: Standard project | Disaster Risk & Resilience | RS02.4

Summary

CBVRS upgrades how first responders and communities prepare for floods, fires, storms, and droughts across Timiș, Arad (RO) and Csongrád‑Csanád (HU). By combining VR/AR simulators with traditional drills, the project harmonizes training standards, engages youth, and embeds gender‑responsive, eco‑friendly practices. Outputs include VR/AR training systems, fire simulation equipment for youth, training events for emergency staff and volunteers, and accessible manuals/handbooks—all supported by coordinated online management and a dedicated social media platform. Benefits: better skills, safer exercises, lower costs, and zero‑emissions training environments.

Project Aim

To enhance cross‑border emergency preparedness and risk prevention by integrating innovative ICT‑based training with coordinated professional and community involvement.

Objectives

✅ Standardize and modernize training for responders and volunteers via VR/AR simulations. 
✅ Build youth resilience with hands‑on fire simulation events across the three counties. 
✅ Produce bilingual learning materials and a virtual‑assisted Training Program co‑designed through cross‑border consultations. 
✅ Strengthen coordination and outreach through online meetings and a social media platform.

Key Activities & Results

🔹 Procurement of VR/AR systems: VR Trainer Simulators, VR Command Simulators, and AR devices with instructor‑led scenarios (LP ADIVEST). 
🔹 Youth fire‑simulation kit procured by PP2 DKMT to support practical learning. 
🔹 Cross‑border staff training: 10 sessions (2 days each; 12 trainees per session) using the new simulators. 
🔹 Youth engagement: 30 fire‑simulation trainings (10 per county) with ~30 youth per event, plus instructors/interpreters. 
🔹 Virtual‑assisted Training Program co‑created via 6 online consultations with the CB Virtual Training Community Working Group. 
🔹 Learning materials: a ~20‑page descriptive manual (equipment use, exercises, firefighting flow) and a ~25‑page first‑aid handbook—both RO/HU bilingual. 
🔹 Digital communications & coordination: online meetings and a project social media platform to spread key messages and mainstream youth & gender inclusion.

With immersive tech, practical drills, and shared standards, CBVRS equips professionals and young people alike to act faster and safer—building a greener, more resilient cross‑border region.

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN

Partnership

Lead Partner: Intercommunity Development Association For Emergency Situations Management (RO) 
Project Partner: DKMT Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregional Development Agency – Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd. (HU)

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