📅 Implementation: 5 Mar 2025 – 4 Sep 2027 (30 months)
💶 Total Budget: €1,131,055.50 | ERDF Contribution: €904,844.40
🤝 Partners:3 organisations
🎯 Type: Standard project | Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk Prevention | RS02.4

Summary

FIGHT strengthens emergency preparedness and resilience in the Romania–Hungary border area by improving the skills, coordination, and equipment of professional and volunteer firefighters.

The project enhances cross-border disaster response through joint field exercises, harmonised training plans, and shared rescue standards.

It also fosters cooperation between authorities and communities, ensuring faster, safer, and more effective responses to emergencies such as fires, floods, or accidents.

Project Aim

To increase the safety and protection of the population by strengthening the intervention capacity of professional and volunteer emergency services in the Romania–Hungary border area.

Objectives

✅ Improve coordination and interoperability between emergency services
✅ Upgrade firefighting and rescue equipment
✅ Develop a joint training curriculum and field exercise plan
✅ Strengthen cooperation between professional and volunteer units
✅ Raise public awareness on emergency prevention and response

Key Activities & Results

🔹 Joint Training Programme – Intensive practical and theoretical training for Romanian and Hungarian firefighters.
🔹 Equipment Procurement – Acquisition of modern protective and rescue gear to improve intervention safety and efficiency.
🔹 Joint Field Exercises – Cross-border simulations to test and harmonise operational standards.
🔹 Training Curriculum – Development of a common training plan for long-term cooperation.
🔹 Community Awareness Campaigns – Events promoting disaster prevention and preparedness.

Partnership

Lead Partner: General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (RO)
Project Partners: Emergency Inspectorate “Vasile Goldiș” of Arad County (RO) and Volunteer Firefighter Association of Mórahalom City (HU)

FIGHT builds a safer, more resilient border region by uniting firefighters across Romania and Hungary. Through shared training, new equipment, and strong cooperation, the project ensures that emergency teams can respond faster and more effectively, protecting people, property, and the environment.

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN

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